On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:46:41PM +1100, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > > 'tr' -d '\t' < compiler/main/DynFlags.hs | '/usr/bin/sed' '/^xFlags/,/]/s/^ > > *( *\("[^"]*"\)[^"]*/ [\1] ++/p;d' >> > > utils/ghc-cabal/dist-dummy-ghc/build/dummy-ghc.hs > > sed: 1: "s|/Users/chak/Code/ghc- ...": bad flag in substitute command: 'i' > > make[1]: *** [utils/unlit/dist/build/.depend.c_asm] Error 1 > > Ian, I assume this is part of recent build system changes ? correct > me if I am wrong. You have got a Mac to validate things like > that. I get the feeling that you don't like using the Mac, but > believe me, it is getting tiring to be the first person who trips > over these Linux-isms (the missing gmp.h dependency was the > previous botch in that line).
GNUisms, it's not Linux' fault, although I neither like Linux do I know any Linux distribution not using the GNU tools. FWIW, if you want to be a little bit more sure that things will work, http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/toc.htm may help. Not always, but very often. (But beware that the standard sometimes is plain stupid) In addition, the FreeBSD folks have a nice man2web interface offering man pages of all kind of operating systems, including some really old shit that probably doesn't matter much this days ;-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi The problem with the GNU tools is that they claim to offer a way to turn on strict POSIX behaviour (via POSIXLY_CORRECT) but still fail to turn off all their extensions. You *have* to look at the standard or read man pages from other systems. Of course, you can also read the documentation of GNU tools (like GNU sed in this case), but you have to read the texinfo documentation, because their man pages typically aren't complete. Or worse (look at the debian man page of tar(1) for example). Oh, and BTW: if things work on MacOS, they can still fail on other systems -- those who are subscribed to the darcs mailinglists probably remember how much fun the darcs people had with some shell scripts on Solaris. Ciao, Kili _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc