Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> The second is more tricky. The '-E' option to use EREs was not added to >>> the specification for 'sed' until POSIX.1-2024 [1]. Maybe the script >>> could check for the 'gsed' command? All of the (few) Solaris machines I >>> use will have many GNU programs installed like that. >> I can't comment on that especially as the build bits support pretty old >> releases and >> I have no idea how long Sun / Oracle have been shipping GNU bits like >> this. I do not >> believe this has always been a thing. > > > The Solaris box I have a shell on, has gsed installed as a purely > optional third-party addon from a third-party package feed. As far as I > know, Solaris never did nor plans to ship "GNU bits like this". Yes, sorry for not being clear. It is not installed by default. On the compile farm machines I have access to it is always installed by the maintainer. Or on VMs I use, I always download it. I figured that is pretty common. > Of course, the Git project *could* declare users must first build GNU > sed, then build Git. Or only build on boxes where the admin is a GNU > enthusiast. But that option seems unlikely and unattractive... Perhaps I am too mean to Solaris... Their 'date' command made me give a similar recommendation before. Anyways, Junio wrote a patch that avoids us forcing GNU tools on them. Collin
