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From: Curt Finch <curt@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com>
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Subject: Re: python problems on freebsd (fwd)
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this occurs when installing and compiling python from ftp.python.org
on freebsd2.1.5 (maybe fixed on latest?)
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| Curt Finch             Phoenix Net-Tek LLC             512-795-0709 |
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:37:40 +1100
From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@flibble.cs.su.oz.au>
To: Curt Finch <curt@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com>
Subject: Re: python problems on freebsd
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python

Curt Finch wrote:
> 
> it's just the sed distributed w/ freebsd, i'm sure it's fine
> i'll work on it and send out the real answer when i find it
> 
> thanx for your input

It isn't. Use GNU sed. I had exactly the same problem on a clients
FreeBSD box, and using GNU sed fixed it completely.

I wonder why FreeBSD has a broken sed?

	Stephen