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>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes: Uli> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes: >> Which versions are broken? Uli> Every 1.x and 2.x version. 3.0 and 3.01 were totally broken. >> And what's the problem? Uli> You get wrong test cases for gettext. Can we run those tests only if we found a working sed version? >> Should we add the version of sed to glibcbug - and document the >> requirement in the INSTALL document? Uli> Yeah, might be good. What do you think of the appended patch? Btw. I'd like to allow sed 3.02 or newer - otherwise we get again tons of bugreports because we complain about sed 3.09. Andreas 2000-02-25 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> * configure.in: Allow sed 3.02 or newer 3.xx version. * manual/install.texi (Tools for Compilation): Document sed requirement. ============================================================ Index: manual/install.texi --- manual/install.texi 2000/01/12 10:19:48 1.37 +++ manual/install.texi 2000/02/25 15:04:34 @@ -392,6 +392,16 @@ Perl is not required, but it is used if present to test the installation. We may decide to use it elsewhere in the future. +@item +GNU @code{sed} 3.02 or newer + +Sed is used in several places to generate files. Most scripts work with +any version of @code{sed}. The known exception is the script +@code{po2test.sed} in the @code{intl} subdirectory which is used to +generate @code{msgs.h} for the testsuite. This script works correctly +only with GNU @code{sed} 3.02. If you like to run the testsuite, you +should definitly upgrade @code{sed}. + @end itemize @noindent ============================================================ Index: configure.in --- configure.in 2000/02/11 18:38:31 1.269 +++ configure.in 2000/02/25 15:04:37 @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ [3.1[1-9] | 3.[2-9][0-9] | 4.* | 1.6[89] | 1.7[0-9]], MAKEINFO=: aux_missing=t) AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(SED, gsed sed, --version, [GNU sed version \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)], - [3.02], SED=: aux_missing=t) + [3.0[2-9]|3.[1-9]*], SED=: aux_missing=t) if test -n "$critic_missing"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([ -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
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