Re: Solaris sed

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2025, 04:25 UTC
Message-ID: <87v7p1d1rf.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ed3d9c32-5de8-4653-be75-d2b5c89340e0@gentoo.org>

Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org> writes:

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>>> 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.
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> 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