Problem with 'sed' again in parsing SVN version info

[Michael Wood-Vasey]

/usr/bin/sed -e "s|@PSLIB_VERSION@|\"/usr/bin/svnversion ../..\"|" -e "s|@PSLIB_BRANCH@|\"/usr/bin/svn info ../.. | /usr/bin/sed -n -e '/URL:/ h' -e '/Repository Root:/ { x; H; x; s|Repository Root: \(.*\)\nURL: \1\(.*\)|\2| ; s|^/|| ; s|/[a-zA-Z]*/src.*|| ; p }'\"|" -e "s|@PSLIB_SOURCE@|\"/usr/bin/svn info | /usr/bin/sed -n -e 's/Repository UUID: // p'\"|" psVersionDefinitions.h.in > psVersionDefinitions.h

sed: 1: "/Repository Root:/ { x; ...": extra characters at the end of p command
svn: Write error: Broken pipe

on Mac OS X 10.5.6, Intel

[Paul Price]

Please report what version of sed you're using. It seems that the Mac sed is not compatible with the GNU sed.

[Michael Wood-Vasey]

It's a BSD sed vs. GNU sed issue. If I compiled GNU sed then it works fine with that.

[Paul Price]

The workaround (get GNU sed from fink) indicates that this ticket is no longer a "blocker". It's not likely to be fixed any time soon on our side.

[Sebastian Jester]

Could we add the specific version of GNU sed that works to extlibs?

[eugene]

we should replace the long and un-readable sed line with a small perl script that lives in the psconfig directory.

the perl script could also handle the question of svn export reported in bug #1250