OpenOffice broken???

[mpd]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:14:09PM +1000, JacobRhoden wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 10:17 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > I've been running into a different problem than that one:
> >
> > ===>  Add wrapper scripts
> > sed: illegal option -- i
> > usage: sed script [-Ean] [file ...]
> >        sed [-an] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file ...]
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> jrhoden at elkanah# sed -h
> sed: illegal option -- h
> usage: sed script [-Ean] [-i extension] [file ...]
>        sed [-an] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ... [file...]
> 
> It appears your version of sed is different than the one on my system (where 
> openoffice makes/installs fine. My version of sed comes from:
> 
>   FreeBSD elkanah.its.unimelb.edu.au 4.8-RC
>   FreeBSD 4.8-RC #1: Wed Mar 12 15:00:01 EST 2003     
> 
> I am guessing that your FreeBSD is older than that yes? 
> 
>  - jacob

In the past, the system sed didn't support the -i (edit file
in place) switch, but there is a port called sed_inplace
(textproc/sed_inplace) which handles it. If upgrading your base 
system (which I do recommend in your case) isn't an option,
this might work for you.

> 
> 
> Jacob Rhoden            Phone: +61 3 8344 6102

mike
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