Re: GNU sed-4.0 problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:35:39AM +0100, Ervin N?meth wrote:
> 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.

POSIXLY_CORRECT is getting a bad reputation...
 
> 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.

I will look into it (thanks for the pointer).

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