#8764: Usage of `sed' in GHC build system (Solaris build failure). --------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 7.9 Keywords: | Operating System: Solaris Architecture: x86 | Type of failure: Building GHC failed Difficulty: Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | --------------------------------+---------------------------------------- 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 -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8764 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler