[BusyBox] sed, ash and LINENO

[John van Vlaaderen]

hi, I have been saying this for years, why not perl ??

there is a uclib compiled perl out there; i will soon make one myself :)

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 07:14 PM, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> I would like to be able to use busybox to run autoconf configure
> scripts.
>
> The only applet that doesnt work is sed as autoconf needs branching and
> translation.
>
> It would be good to fix bb sed to implement these features, translation
> may not be too hard, but branching is more complex.
>
> In an attempt to push the problem onto someone else (vodz;) i notice
> that autoconf seems to only need branching when the LINENO environment
> variable isnt suported.
>
> LINENO environment variable is specified in SUSv2.
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/chap2.html
>
> However no version of ash appear to support LINEO as demonstrated by
> script at
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf-2.53/html_node/Special-Shell-Variables.
> html
>
> What do you think vodz, would it be hard to add LINENO support to bb ash
> ?
>
>
> Glenn
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