Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] maint: use $(SED) instead of sed for syntax-check
Paul Eggert wrote:
On 01/27/2014 01:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> I'd like some feedback from the gnulib
> community if favoring $(SED) is the right thing to do, or if I should
> just rewrite libvirt's rules to stick to portable sed constructs.
My kneejerk reaction is that we'd probably have fewer problems using
'$(SED)' everywhere in a makefile, rather than using '$(SED)' some
places and 'sed' in others, because it'd be one less 'sed'
implementation to worry about.
Yes, that was the idea. That's why I replaced all the usage of 'sed' even
though not all of them are non-portable, as Eric pointed.
For sure, using portable regexps is better way, but I don't know how
much of effort that would be.
Roman Bogorodskiy