sed: update to v4.10

2026-05-03T06:14:01Z

update to version v4.10, disable building gnulib-tests to avoid compilation errors. Add --disable-xattr to CONFIGURE_ARGS to avoid linking an unneeded dependency. Changes in sed since v4.9, from NEWS: ** Bug fixes sed 's/a/b/g' (and other global substitutions) now works on input lines longer than 2GB. Previously, matches beyond the 2^31 byte offset would evoke a "panic" (exit 4). [bug present since the beginning] 'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer has a TOCTOU race that could let an attacker swap a symlink between resolution and open, causing sed to read attacker-chosen content and write it to the original target. [bug introduced in sed 4.1e] sed no longer falsely matches when back-references are combined with optional groups (.?) and the $ anchor. For example, this no longer falsely matches the empty string at beginning of line: $ echo ab | sed -E 's/^(.?)(.?).?\2\1$/X/' Xab [bug present since "the beginning"] In --posix mode, sed no longer mishandles backslash escapes (\n, \t, \a, etc.) after a named character class like [[:alpha:]]. For example, 's/^A\n[[:alpha:]]\n*/XXX/' would fail to match the trailing newline, treating \n as a literal backslash and an 'n' rather than a newline. This happened when an earlier backslash escape in the same regex had already been converted, shifting the in-place normalization buffer. [bug introduced in sed 4.9] sed --debug no longer crashes when a label (":") command is compiled before the --debug option is processed, e.g., sed -f<(...) --debug. [bug introduced in sed 4.7 with --debug] sed no longer rejects the documented GNU extension 'a**' (equivalent to 'a*') in Basic Regular Expression (BRE) mode. Previously, this worked only with -E (ERE mode), even though grep has always accepted it in BRE mode. [bug present since "the beginning"] sed no longer rejects "\c[" in regular expressions [bug present since the beginning] 'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer mishandles an operand that is a short symbolic link to a long symbolic link to a file. [bug introduced in sed 4.9] Fix some some longstanding but unlikely integer overflows. Internally, 'sed' now more often prefers signed integer arithmetic, which can be checked automatically via 'gcc -fsanitize=undefined'. ** Changes in behavior In the default C locale, diagnostics now quote 'like this' (with apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with a grave accent and an apostrophe). This tracks the GNU coding standards. 'sed --posix' now warns about uses of backslashes in the 's' command that are handled by GNU sed but are not portable to other implementations. ** Build-related builds no longer fail on platforms without the header or getopt_long function. [bug introduced in sed 4.9] Signed-off-by: Russell Senior

sed: remove old libpcre dependency

2023-02-28T23:41:52Z

Signed-off-by: Alan Swanson

sed: update GNU sed to v4.9

2022-11-14T09:55:35Z

Signed-off-by: Russell Senior

sed: don't use selinux

2020-08-18T07:26:05Z

Fixes compilation. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev

sed: alternatives instead of postinst

2020-06-23T14:40:35Z

Signed-off-by: Huangbin Zhan

sed: disable acl

2020-03-10T00:52:23Z

If libacl is built, gnu sed finds it during configuration and enables support linking in libacl. This results in build failures due to the missing dependency. Consequently, use CONFIGURE_ARGS to disable acl support. Reported-by: Rosen Penev rosenp@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Russell Senior

sed: add Gnu sed

2020-03-03T07:40:40Z