Re: Solaris sed

[Brad Smith <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2025-06-12 12:03 a.m., Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brad Smith <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Building on Solaris I noticed the following two issues with Solaris sed.
> >
> >      GEN version-def.h
> > sed: Missing newline at end of file standard input.
> Perhaps it is this input line it is complaining about.  sed works on
> text files, and a file that ends in incomplete line was not quite
> text.
>
> -REPLACED=$(printf "%s" "$INPUT" | sed -e "s|@GIT_VERSION@|$GIT_VERSION|" \
> +REPLACED=$(printf "%s\n" "$INPUT" | sed -e "s|@GIT_VERSION@|$GIT_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MAJOR_VERSION@|$GIT_MAJOR_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MINOR_VERSION@|$GIT_MINOR_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MICRO_VERSION@|$GIT_MICRO_VERSION|" \
>
> >      GEN config-list.h
> > sed: illegal option -- E
> > Usage:  sed [-n] script [file...]
> >          sed [-n] [-e script]...[-f script_file]...[file...]
> This is a bit trickier but should be doable.  It does not like the
> -E option to use ERE (as opposed to BRE) for pattern matching used
> in generate-configlist.sh script.
>
> 	sed -E '
> 	/^`?[a-zA-Z].*\..*`?::$/ {
> 	/deprecated/d;
> 	s/::$//;
> 	s/`//g;
> 	s/^.*$/	"&",/;
> 	p;};
> 	d'
>
> I think the only problematic one is the first address, whose BRE
> equivalent I think is
>
> 	/^`\{0,1\}[a-zA-Z].*\..*`\{0,1\}::$/
>
> In practice, I suspect \{0,1\} is unnecessarily strict and using
> something looser like
>
> 	/^`*[a-zA-Z].*\..*`*::$/
>
> may be sufficient.  Replace the address expression associated with
> the {editing command} and drop "-E", and use "-e" for readability,
> perhaps?
>
> Totally untested patch follows.
>
>   GIT-VERSION-GEN        | 2 +-
>   generate-configlist.sh | 8 ++++----
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git c/GIT-VERSION-GEN w/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> index 208e91a17f..de989657fb 100755
> --- c/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> +++ w/GIT-VERSION-GEN
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ read GIT_MAJOR_VERSION GIT_MINOR_VERSION GIT_MICRO_VERSION GIT_PATCH_LEVEL trail
>   $(echo "$GIT_VERSION" 0 0 0 0 | tr '.a-zA-Z-' ' ')
>   EOF
>   
> -REPLACED=$(printf "%s" "$INPUT" | sed -e "s|@GIT_VERSION@|$GIT_VERSION|" \
> +REPLACED=$(printf "%s\n" "$INPUT" | sed -e "s|@GIT_VERSION@|$GIT_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MAJOR_VERSION@|$GIT_MAJOR_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MINOR_VERSION@|$GIT_MINOR_VERSION|" \
>   	-e "s|@GIT_MICRO_VERSION@|$GIT_MICRO_VERSION|" \
> diff --git c/generate-configlist.sh w/generate-configlist.sh
> index 9d2ad6165d..75c39ade20 100755
> --- c/generate-configlist.sh
> +++ w/generate-configlist.sh
> @@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ print_config_list () {
>   	cat <<EOF
>   static const char *config_name_list[] = {
>   EOF
> -	sed -E '
> -/^`?[a-zA-Z].*\..*`?::$/ {
> +	sed -e '
> +	/^`*[a-zA-Z].*\..*`*::$/ {
>   	/deprecated/d;
>   	s/::$//;
>   	s/`//g;
>   	s/^.*$/	"&",/;
>   	p;};
> -d' \
> +	d' \
>   	    "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/*config.adoc \
> -	    "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/config/*.adoc|
> +	    "$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/config/*.adoc |
>   	sort
>   	cat <<EOF
>   	NULL,


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