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
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