Re: Solaris sed

Collin Funk
2025-06-12T03:42:28Z

Hi Brad,

Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com> writes:

> Building on Solaris I noticed the following two issues with Solaris sed.
>
>     GEN version-def.h
> sed: Missing newline at end of file standard input.
>
>     GEN config-list.h
> sed: illegal option -- E
> Usage:  sed [-n] script [file...]
>         sed [-n] [-e script]...[-f script_file]...[file...]
>
>
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/e1b81f54da80267edee2cb8fd0d0f75f03023019
>
> The second issue being introduced fairly recently. Not sure what would be
> appropriate fixes. Just pointing them out if someone has an suggestions for
> fixes.

I noticed these as well, but just ignored them since it seems to build
fine.

The first one seems like just a warning? Probably something to do with
POSIX defining a "Text File" as "A file that contains characters
organized into zero or more lines" where a line is "A sequence of zero
or more non- <newline> characters plus a terminating <newline>
character."

The second is more tricky. The '-E' option to use EREs was not added to
the specification for 'sed' until POSIX.1-2024 [1]. Maybe the script
could check for the 'gsed' command? All of the (few) Solaris machines I
use will have many GNU programs installed like that.

Collin

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/sed.html