[tlbuild] 2014 builds for FreeBSD

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2014, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

> On (some) BSD systems, the TL build fails as sed is hardwired and
> appears that gsed extensions are used. A solution would be to put
> ${SED-sed} at appropriate places so that one can define SED=gsed in the
> environment.

Hi Alan,

(1) it would help to know the exact failure(s), i.e., during 'make'
or 'make check', in which directory, which GNU extensions.

(2) the configure scripts should use AC_PROG_SED (see the Autoconf manual)
but perhaps some do not and probably some shell scripts for tests do not use
$SED.

(3) with AC_PROG_SED configure should automatically select sed or gsed, but
having SED=gsed on the command line for configure or in the environment
certainly does no harm.

Regards
Peter