Adriaan van Os wrote:
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Adriaan van Os wrote:
I am adding a few notes about building on Mac OS X.
The following tools may be needed:
- sed 4.0.x
a too old version is installed with XCode or OS X (I use 4.0.5, but I assume later versions work also) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/
Well, I have 3.02 here (very old) and didn't notice any problems.
I don't know what bizarre version of sed Apple distributes - the default system sed on Mac OS X doesn't have a version switch and gpc reports that it is "crippled".
Ah ok, probably a non-GNU sed then; many of those I've seen are "crippled", in that they don't even support full regular expressions (i.e. Chomsky type 3 languages, or finite automata), which makes it hard to work around. So probably any GNU sed version will so. (You might want to mention this in the "heading", although you give the GNU URL, since there exist other sed's, and by chance one of them might have version number 4.0.x (or a bigger number, and a reader would think it's ok.)
Frank