diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/sed.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/sed.xml b/chapter06/sed.xml index cf4598f0d..d6799c28c 100644 --- a/chapter06/sed.xml +++ b/chapter06/sed.xml @@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Texinfo</seg></seglistitem> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Sed</title> +<para>A bug in this version of sed changes permissions on files modified using +the in-place function (<userinput>-i</userinput> flag). Apply a patch to ensure +that the original file permissions are preserved.</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sed-&sed-version;-permissions-1.patch +</userinput></screen> + <para>Prepare Sed for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen> |