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From: "D. Richard Hipp" <drh@acm.org>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: "sed" bug?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37680C5A.10D3F140@acm.org> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990630221000.2VX4i4sp4c4kfIgmzRTxJcG0nJLYDi4bRMgHakPi0dw@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199906162037.QAA30157@envy.delorie.com>

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> More likely a bug in ash (or in cygwin, but only ash stumbles upon
> it).  We don't intentionally make them incompatible.  Note, however,
> that bash and ash *are* different programs, so if a script relies on
> some obscure bash idiosyncrasy, there's not much we can do about it.

The problems that cleared up when I switched to bash were
"sed" expressions that were generated by standard Autoconf
macros (version 1.13).  I'm guessing that Autoconf doesn't
use any obscure bash idiosyncrasies, so it looks like this
could be an ash bug.

-- 
D. Richard Hipp -- drh@acm.org -- http://www.hwaci.com/drh/

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-30 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-16 12:23 Earnie Boyd
1999-06-16 12:31 ` D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-16 13:13   ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-16 13:33     ` D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-16 13:37       ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-16 13:43         ` D. Richard Hipp [this message]
1999-06-30 22:10           ` D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-30 22:10         ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10       ` D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-30 22:10     ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10   ` D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-06-17  5:58 Eddelbuettel, Dirk
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Eddelbuettel, Dirk
1999-06-17  5:36 Earnie Boyd
1999-06-17  9:47 ` itz
1999-06-17 22:35   ` Glenn Spell
1999-06-30 22:10     ` Glenn Spell
1999-06-30 22:10   ` itz
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Earnie Boyd
1999-06-16 12:02 D. Richard Hipp
1999-06-30 22:10 ` D. Richard Hipp

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