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On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> it seems I have been using some fragile sed expression and I'd like to tap |
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> the collective wisdom for avoiding doing that in the future. |
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> dev-scheme/slib-3.1.5-r1 currently does |
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> sed "s_prefix = /usr/local/_prefix = ${D}/usr/_" -i Makefile |
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ignoring the escape character (which is currently standardized in the tree as |
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a colon), expressions like this are inherently fragile due to makefile |
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changes. i tend to do: |
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sed -i '/^prefix[[:space:]]*=/s:=.*:=/usr' Makefile |
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-mike |
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