Re: [Mingw-users] sed for msys

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

Further details, as promised earlier.

On Monday 23 February 2009 03:42:02 Sisyphus wrote:
> MSYS-1.0.11 comes with GNU sed version 3.02. Is there a more recent
> version of sed for msys ?

No, but I'm sure Cesar would be favourably disposed to accept one, if 
you cared to port it :-)

> Version 3.02 is having difficulty with a sed command in
> windows/windres-options in the libiconv-1.12 source. Before
> submitting a bug report, I would like to verify that it's the
> source (as opposed to my version of sed) that's the problem.

It is a bug, in libiconv-1.12 source, but don't bother to report it; I 
did that already, several months ago, and Bruno has long since fixed 
it, (but not yet cut a new release, last time I looked).  I'm sure I 
also posted *my* patch *here*, to work around the problem; let's see:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/28856/focus=28875

To that, I attached my patch file, from my currently pending release 
of `libiconv-1.12-mingwPORT', (which still needs some cosmetic work):
http://cache.gmane.org/gmane/comp/gnu/mingw/user/28875-001.bin

The original discussion, leading to my bug report, appeared on the 
MinGW-MSYS list, back in June 2008:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys/4410

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Regards,
Keith.