Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-03-22 19:20:37 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> This appears to be a busybox "limitation".
> I expect to work around it with this patch:
> 
>       portability: work around a "busybox sed" limitation
>       * configure.ac: While every other sed tested supports usage like
>       '/\(re\)/{s//\1/;...<NEWLINE>}', and POSIX appears to requires this,
>       busybox's sed does not support it.  So duplicate the regexp:
>       '/\(re\)/{s/\(re\)/\1/;...<NEWLINE>}'.  Reported by Vincent Lefevre:
>       <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/13013>.

Thanks, I could build the coreutils on the N810.

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