Description Landry Breuil 2012-04-13 16:06:47 CEST

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #8686 +++

sed -i is a gnu extension and is not present in OpenBSD's sed.

xfdesktop hardcodes its use in src/Makefile.am:

src/Makefile.am:              && sed -i -e 's/org_xfce_FileManager/xfdesktop_file_manager_proxy/g' \
src/Makefile.am:              && sed -i -e 's/org_xfce_Thunar/xfdesktop_thunar_proxy/g' \
src/Makefile.am:              && sed -i -e 's/org_xfce_Trash/xfdesktop_trash_proxy/g' \

configure should check for SED program (so that we can override it with SED=/usr/local/bin/gsed on OpenBSD) and use $(SED) in Makefile.am instead.

A way to check for it is :

dnl AC_PROG_SED is only avaliable in recent autoconf versions.
dnl Use AC_CHECK_PROG instead if AC_PROG_SED is not present.
ifdef([AC_PROG_SED],
      [AC_PROG_SED],
      [AC_CHECK_PROG(SED, sed, sed)])

(taken from http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/configure.in)

AC_PROG_SED macro is available since autoconf 2.62.