As mentioned in a previous thread [1], the native sed utility on OpenBSD
does not interpret `-' as a file argument to mean stdin. This is
inconvenient but POSIX-compliant behavior. The attached patch fixes
this, let me know if this looks okay (and push for me if so).
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-08/msg00012.html
Thanks,
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mike
From c3f41ec0acbb9487002c14d310b1c63d3346a10b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:39:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: port to OpenBSD sed
* build-aux/bootstrap (insert_if_absent): Port to OpenBSD sed which
does not interpret `-' as a file argument to mean stdin.
---
ChangeLog | 6 ++
build-aux/bootstrap | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c8eb4d..57b078d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2013-08-12 Mike Miller mtmil...@ieee.org
+
+ bootstrap: port to OpenBSD sed
+ * build-aux/bootstrap (insert_if_absent): Port to OpenBSD sed which
+ does not interpret `-' as a file argument to mean stdin.
+
2013-08-11 Paul Eggert egg...@cs.ucla.edu
fpending: port to recent Cygwin change to stdio_ext.h
diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap
index df763de..d2a4665 100755
--- a/build-aux/bootstrap
+++ b/build-aux/bootstrap
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! /bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2013-08-09.15; # UTC
+scriptversion=2013-08-13.02; # UTC
# Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources.
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ insert_if_absent() {
die Error: Duplicate entries in $file: $duplicate_entries
fi
linesold=$(gitignore_entries $file | wc -l)
- linesnew=$(echo $str | gitignore_entries - $file | sort -u | wc -l)
+ linesnew=$( { echo $str; cat $file; } | gitignore_entries | sort -u | wc -l)
if [ $linesold != $linesnew ] ; then
{ echo $str | cat - $file $file.bak mv $file.bak $file; } \
|| die insert_if_absent $file $str: failed
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1.8.3.2
