In article <201111020317.11022.br...@clisp.org>, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
> David Evans wrote: > > Thanks for that. I've solved the problem more simply by installed GNU > > sed on both FreeBSD and OS X, and it now works. > > I confirm that with MacOS X /usr/bin/sed, MODULES.html.sh spews error > messages from 'sed' (with or without Paul's patch), whereas with GNU sed, > MODULES.html.sh works fine (with or without Paul's patch). > > > I've now bisected this bug > > It is not a bug in gnulib. GNU sed is listed as a dependency of gnulib in the > DEPENDENCIES file: Agreed. Sorry for casting aspersions on gnulib. I forgot that FreeBSD's sed is not based on GNU sed and this threw me. OSX's and FreeBSD's sed both share a common ancestry.
