Re: GNU sed-4.0 problem

[Ervin Németh]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:47:03PM +0100, Ervin N?meth wrote:
>
> > In ncurses-5.3 the generated file ncurses/lib_gen.c is not correctly dumped 
> > with sed-4.0.  There is no problem if sed-3.02 is used.
>
>
> Perhaps it is a locale issue - I just built a copy of ncurses testing with
> sed 4.0

Not exactly but close.

I've just learned that POSIXLY_CORRECT is the source of the problem.

Searching for this variable in the info pages of sed there are two mayor 
behaviourial differences in regexps, the null-regexp and the escapes (only "\n" 
is allowed in POSIX).

I hope this helps.


/Ervin