Re: Incorrect use of extended RE in script

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:

> Tom et al,
>
> I'm looking at # $Id: MKterminfo.sh,v 1.10 2002/06/29 20:04:28 tom Exp $
> as found in ncurses 5.3.

I fixed that almost a year ago.  I believe it was this item:

20030105
        + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
          of sed 4.0

> Thus, the resulting terminfo.5 has horribly broken tables, e.g. on
> FreeBSD, where it looks like

indeed - someone reported it on FreeBSD, I fixed it in my ongoing work,
and FreeBSD hasn't incorporated the fix.  I recall some email with the
person who reported the problem, but no one picked up the fix.

Furthermore I've sent email to occasional people who comment on this.
Since no one appears to be responsible for FreeBSD, I guess we'll have
to wait a few years until they upgrade ncurses.

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