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Date:      Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:28:13 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        SADA Kenji <sada@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/xjman Makefile
Message-ID:  <200211122228.gACMSDK3060328@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021112183221.GA78365@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200211111707.gABH7KTv072388@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021111212627.GA73890@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021112195135.1ab72d8c.sada@FreeBSD.org> <20021112183221.GA78365@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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<<On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:32:27 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> said:

> Oops, I was mis-remembering an earlier state of bsd.port.mk.  It looks
> like it now does use sed -i always.

This can actually turn out to be important, because POSIX and Perl
regular expressions only match the same strings by accident.  (The
Perl semantics are much cleaner, and actually comprehensible.  POSIX
tried very hard to formalize regular expressions and didn't quite get
it right.)

-GAWollman


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