Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-14T04:05:27Z

> From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:58:09 +0200
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
>
> On 13 Jan 2008 at 22:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> > > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:18:26 +0200
> > >
> > > The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > I think the GnuWin32 site has a newer version of Sed.
>
> Thanks Eli, but the GnuWin32 copy of SED is not compatible with MinGW; it does the same as the
> Cygwin copy of SED: It does not understand parameters passed by MSYS

Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.

I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
site.

Failing that, building Sed is not a hard job, so just get the latest
sources from the GNU FTP site and build it with MSYS.