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

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:46 AM Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

So there *is* a bug.
Thank you both! That patch looks right.