[PATCH] Use SED set by libtool macros

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Wed Mar 24 06:23:30 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:53 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:

> Le 24/03/2010 07:21, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) a écrit :
> > From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz at users.sourceforge.net>
> > 
> > We now use libtool, which calls AC_PROG_SED and sets SED as the path to
> > a fully-functional 'sed' (which may also be called 'gsed' if GNU sed is
> > installed alongside a proprietary version).  Therefore we should respect
> > this value of SED so we are sure to use the correct one.
> 
> Then configure should still call AC_PROG_SED explicitely. Relying on
> libtool's macros for that _will_ bite us at some point.
> 
> The rest of the patch is fine.
> 

I agree AC_PROG_SED and similar macros should be explicitly called. This
alerts the
reader that the program in question is used, so it also has a
documentation benefit.
It's of a great help to find where env variables are defined.



> Cheers,
> 
> Rémi
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