Re: Incorrect SELinux information in sed(1) man page

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 2021-01-01 3:37 p.m., Assaf Gordon wrote:
> On 2021-01-01 3:27 p.m., Kian Kasad wrote:
> > On 21/01/01 10:00AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:00 AM Kian Kasad <kian@kasad.com> wrote:
> > > > In the source tarball for sed, the doc/sed.1 file says that the program
> > > > is built with SELinux support. However, this isn't necessarily true.
> I took a look, and indeed the "sed.1" which is packaged with the tarball 
> is not re-generated *if* building from a clean tarball (as opposed to 
> building from git).
>
> This is due to incorrect logic meant to fall-back to the pre-packaged 
> "sed.1" if the target system doesn't have perl.
> Likely from here:
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=a0a25e3ee35f5071d5f5c2c068cd5d96f1deb3c4 

Attached a suggested fix.
Comments welcomed.

regards,
 - assaf

0001-build-restore-build-rules-for-manual-page.patch
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