[libvirt] [PATCH] maint: use $(SED) instead of sed for syntax-check

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Jan 27 22:05:31 UTC 2014


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.




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