Re: [E-devel] Configure.ac uses non-portable use of sed, breaking autogen.sh on MacOS

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dave Ray <cl...@jo...> wrote:
>> I attempted to compile e17 on MacOS-X Leopard (10.5.8) after doing a
>> fresh OS install.
>>
>> All autoconf.sh scripts are failing in an unusual way.
>>
>> Spoke to Vincent Torri, who posted my problem on the M4 list. You can
>> read the whole thread here:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-06/msg00007.html
>>
>> According to the thread, configure.ac contains a non-portable use of
>> sed that is causing the failure only on MacOS.
>>
>> Something changed in configure.ac in svn from 6 weeks ago, which was
>> the last time I compiled e17 from svn. The problem wasn't there before.
>>
>> I observed this when trying to compile eina, the first package on the
>> list of deps. I also tried e_dbus, since it doesn't have dependencies,
>> and got the exact same error.
>>
>> This is a total show-stopper for e17 on MacOS-X until fixed.
>>
>> FYI I'm using autoconf 2.65, automake 1.11, m4 1.4.14.
>
> Possibly it was Sachiel's changes from yesterday usign sed + git-log
> to figure out svn revision if using git-svn.

No it is not. The problem was before Sachiel's addition

Vincent