Re: very very strange bash/sed bug !!
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is
> incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it
> for months.
>
> Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and
> sed.
>
> First and foremost, I'm running debian/unstable, and have sed 3.02-8.1,
> bash 2.05b-6 and libtool 1.4.3-5 (but it's been there since several
> versions).
>
> Now the bug:
>
> echo xx >lt1
> echo xx >lt2
> sed '' /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh >>lt1
> sed '' /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh |less >>lt2
> diff lt1 lt2
>
> They differ !!! And surprisingly, only lt2 is correct !
>
> If anyone could try to help me find why my intallation does that, I'd
> appreciate much. I already tried reinstalling the concerned packages,
> but no luck.
Just a guess ... what is the value of "LANG", or "LC_ALL" ?
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