automatically detect if we have a usable version of sed

installed.  If not, we will now build our own version.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sources/sedcheck.sh b/sources/sedcheck.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f6fcebd94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sources/sedcheck.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+if [ -x /usr/bin/sed ]; then 
+    SED="/usr/bin/sed";
+else
+    if [ -x /bin/sed ]; then 
+	SED="/bin/sed";
+    fi;
+fi;
+
+echo "HELLO" > .sedtest
+$SED -i -e "s/HELLO/GOODBYE/" .sedtest >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
+	rm -f .sedtest
+	echo build-sed-host-binary
+fi;
+rm -f .sedtest
+echo use-sed-host-binary
+
+