Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#12700 closed defect (fixed)

BUG: reinplace -E doesn't work with GNU sed (from gsed +with_default_names)

Reported by: vinc17@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone: MacPorts 1.6
Component: base Version: 1.5.2
Keywords: Cc: vinc17@…, nox@…
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Description

The Portfile man page mentions "reinplace -E", which is used by the libxslt port at least. When sed from the coreutils port is installed (in /opt/local/bin, which is first in my $PATH), installing libxslt fails with:

Error: reinplace: sed: invalid option -- E

A fix could be to hard-code the path to BSD sed: /usr/bin/sed. But it would probably be better not to rely on non-POSIX features, in particular if Apple decides to use another version of sed in the future. Note that the BSD sed man page says:

     The -E, -a and -i options are non-standard FreeBSD extensions and may not
     be available on other operating systems.

Attachments (2)

portutil.tcl-bsd-sed.diff (408 bytes) - added by nox@… 17 years ago.
portutil.tcl-bsd-sed.2.diff (408 bytes) - added by nox@… 17 years ago.

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Change History (16)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by vinc17@…

The fact that /opt/local/bin is in my $PATH, doesn't matter. So, I suppose that port uses a hard-coded $PATH with /opt/local/bin in it.

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by afb@…

coreutils doesn't have sed, does it ? and gsed installs at gsed, so I don't see the problem

comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by vinc17@…

Yes, it's port gsed, and it is installed as sed too if the with_default_names variant is used.

comment:4 Changed 17 years ago by vinc17@…

Summary: BUG: reinplace -E doesn't work with GNU sed (from coreutils)BUG: reinplace -E doesn't work with GNU sed (from gsed +with_default_names)

comment:5 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…

Cc: nox@… added

We should should hardcode it. sed -E uses POSIX-compliant regular expressions, see re_format(7).

Changed 17 years ago by nox@…

Attachment: portutil.tcl-bsd-sed.diff added

Changed 17 years ago by nox@…

Attachment: portutil.tcl-bsd-sed.2.diff added

comment:6 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…

Oops. I've added it twice...

comment:7 Changed 17 years ago by afb@…

It would be better if you autoconf'ed it as @SED@ and added it to MacPorts requirements.

Note: +with_default_names is rather dangerous, and will break a few other ports as well.

comment:8 Changed 17 years ago by afb@…

I've added @SED@ and @SED_EXT@ in r29127, along with sed_command and sed_ext_flag.

Should now be able to auto-detect BSD sed (-E) and GNU sed (-r) flags, at least...

comment:9 Changed 17 years ago by vinc17@…

Note: +with_default_names is rather dangerous, and will break a few other ports as well.

It should be clear that binaries installed by ports are first for the end user. If the end user prefers GNU utilities, he should be able to use them without needing any prefix. If a port relies on some non-POSIX feature or doesn't take care of a specific dependency (because it wants to use some extension) itself, then this is a bug.

Conversely, upstream sometimes assumes coreutils or couldn't test with BSD utilities; this can also break some ports...

BTW, +with_default_names could install default names into another directory, such as /opt/local/gnu/bin; the end user would just have to adjust his $PATH.

comment:10 Changed 17 years ago by afb@…

cmdline set to use autoconf values, in r29441.

remaining to be tested is if the extended regexps actually work with GNU sed, if they don't there is not much to do but to require that BSD sed is configured.

but at least it should be using the full path now, Mac default being /usr/bin/sed

comment:11 Changed 16 years ago by afb@…

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed, MacPorts 1.6.0.

comment:12 Changed 16 years ago by jmpp@…

Component: portsbase
Priority: HighNormal

comment:13 Changed 15 years ago by tobypeterson

Milestone: MacPorts base bugsMacPorts Future

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted

comment:14 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts FutureMacPorts 1.6
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