Re: fltk-config for windows gives -mwindows flag (was octave-3.3.50 built by mingw-gcc-4.4.0 cannot be executed.)

[Benjamin Lindner]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Sep-2009, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>
> | I'd suggest
> | 
> | sed -e "+s-mwindows++g"
> | 
> | to be more robust.
>
> Why do you say that is more robust?  If the pattern is a literal
> string, then I think the only requirement is that the delimiters for
> the sed command don't appaer in the pattern string.

It's not about the delimiters, it's about the removed space character.

Tatsuro originally suggested
   sed -e 's/ -mwindows//'
which sould only match if there is at least one space character 
preceeding the token "-mwindows", correct?

IMO the replacement rule should remove "-mwindows" regardless if it is 
preceeded by a space or not (e.g. even if it is the first token in a string)

benjamin