Usage of `sed' in GHC build system (Solaris build failure).
Hello, I've found that (1) GHC's configure attempts to find the GNU sed and once found it's saved into the SED makefile variable. But (2) a lot of GHC's makefiles are using straight 'sed' instead of '$(SED)', i.e found GNU sed. The reason for this bugreport is that on Solaris, the provided sed fails on parsing sed expression in rules-builddependencies.mk. I've solved this issue by fixing 'sed' to '$(SED)' there (patch attached), but the general question is if this should not be fixed everywhere. Thanks! Karel
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| Version | 7.9 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Build System |
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