Exactly, some packages that are set up to build nicely on MacOSX expect BSD tools, not GNU. Good example that has bitten me many times, is GNU's "sed -r" versus BSD's "sed -E". Et cetera.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jeremy Lavergne < [email protected]> wrote: > GNU utilities versus BSD utilities ... they don't do the same thing in the > same way. > > This results in some stuff breaking. > > > On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Blair Zajac wrote: > > Are there any reasons not to do this? >> > > -- Mark A. Miller [email protected]
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