bug#26879: end-of-line issue with cygwin 4.4-1 sed 4.4

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello all,


Eric,
Just to verify (since I'm not very familiar with cygwin, nor with the
recent changes in sed/cygwin changes):

If one wants the old sed behavior on cygwin (automatic
handling of CR/LF),
all that's needed is rebuilding sed from upstream source?

That is:

    wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/sed/sed-4.4.tar.xz
    tar -xf sed-4.4.tar.xz
    cd sed-4.4
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

And then the sed binary will handle CR/LF transparently?
(and will also have the old "-b/--binary" flag to disable
automatic CR/LF handling) ?

I'm asking this to help find an easy work-around in case
other cygwin users want revert to the "old ways".
(also useful for us upstream to know about this cygwin change,
in case we get more bug reports).


Thanks,
 - assaf