Re: [Mingw-users] Happy new year

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Greg Chicares <gch...@sb...>:

> On 2009-01-31 22:05Z, Son Tran wrote:
>>
>> problem I have now is that I need a version of "sed" that support the inline
>> edit (option -i) . Currently in my msys, I have sed 3.02. I try to download
>> the latest sed ( version 4.1.5). But the compiling process failed in msys
>> with the error _bcopy is not defined....
>
> I believe I built sed-4.0.7 successfully with MSYS a few
> years ago, without changing the sources at all. That
> version appears to have the '-i' option.
>

Which would give you a windows native version of sed instead of one 
dependent on MSYS-1.0.dll.  This may cause unknown issues.  I forget 
now why I included a version of sed with MSYS.  I do know that I 
modified the original source of the original version of sed that was 
included with MSYS.

Earnie