Hi Bob, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:38:11PM CEST: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >sed 3.02. Dated February 1998. Wow, I am amazed someone still uses > >this. :-) > > This is in fact the version that you will find on my Solaris (and > FreeBSD) systems: > > % sed --version > GNU sed version 3.02
Oh, I meant "on linux" -- that specific part is linux-specific. I do actually know this software is still in use generally. (But thinking in terms of cross-compilation, yes, it's a good idea to remove such stuff. Even if that particular section is far from being cross-compile-friendly.) > I tried newer versions but rejected them because they were > considerably slower than 3.02, and core dumped. It is pretty unusual > to have to revert GNU software due to quality problems, but I found it > necessary to do just that. Yes, sed has had a few glitches. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool
