Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

[Perry Hutchison]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Perry Hutchison wrote in
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2019-03/msg00013.html>:
> > this system's native sed has been crippled
> > to always operate in "sandbox" mode, even without "--sandbox" having
> > been specified on the command line.
> ...
>
> Can you tell us, please, which system this is? I'd like to estimate
> the urgency/necessity of providing a workaround.

It is a Lenovo N21 Chromebook*, running Chrome OS 71.0.3578.127, in
developer mode**.  "sed --version" reports:

  sed (GNU sed) 4.4
  Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  ...

*  Yes, I am aware of Chromebrew; I am using it as a starting point
   but trying to bootstrap as much as possible from source rather than
   installing from binary packages (long story).

** Chrome OS provides no shell access at all, nor ability to run any
   binaries other than its own, unless in developer mode; presumably
   none of its own scripts need a fully functional sed.