Checking for sed... spurrious output ?

[Michel Briand]

Hello,

my configure outputs this:

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... ./configure: line 3764: 
echo: write error: Broken pipe
/bin/sed

Is it intended to have this broken pipe ?

Michel
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