GNU configure script breaking
GNU configure script breaking
- Subject: GNU configure script breaking
- From: "Todd Heberlein" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 09:57:05 -0700
- Organization: Net Squared, Inc.
I was trying to upgrade from GNU's automake-1.4 to automake-1.5.
Unfortunately the configure script for automake-1.5 gives me a number of
sed error messages, and in the end I cannot build and install automake.
I had no problems with automake-1.4.
Here is the execution of the command and error message:
% ./configure
...
creating Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Makefile
...
The same error message is generated for seven other files it was trying
to create. I have isolated the error to the line:
sed -e "$ac_comsub
but this line (and the generation of the ac_comsub variable) seems
pretty much the same in the script that works in automake-1.4.
I also have the same problem with the latest version of autoconf from
GNU.
Any idea what the problem is? Any work arounds (other than not
upgrading :-) ?
Is this a GNU problem or an Apple problem?
Thanks,
Todd
PS. I am running this on pretty much a stock system: 10.0.4 (Build 4Q12)
on an iBook.