Exactly, some packages that are set up to build nicely on MacOSX expect BSD tools, not GNU. Good example that has bitten me many times, is GNU's "sed -r" versus BSD's "sed -E". Et cetera.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@lavergne.gotdns.org">jeremy@lavergne.gotdns.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
GNU utilities versus BSD utilities ... they don't do the same thing in the same way.<br>
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This results in some stuff breaking.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:<br>
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Are there any reasons not to do this?<br>
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