Eric Blake wrote:
> -package=`sed -n "$extract_package_name" configure.ac` || exit
> +package=`$SED -n "$extract_package_name" configure.ac` || exit
Instead of changing every use of sed to $SED, why don't you define 'sed'
as a function? Like this:
if test "$SED" != sed; then
sed ()
{
$SED "$@"
}
fi
This will
1. follow the gnulib philosophy of separation of platform specific
workarounds and the actual code that uses the workarounds,
2. reduce the danger that someone - not aware of of the limitations of sed -
uses 'sed' instead of '$SED' in future modifications of the script.
Bruno
