[Mingw-users] sed fails while ../configure-ing

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Hello

I've been trying to get a few things building lately, and after 
overcoming the initial problems with getting configure to accept my 
gcc an actual compiler with the ability to create executables, i've 
been having trouble with sed reporting some errors in the later 
stages of configurations (when generating makefiles and config.hs)

output is like this:

V:\BIN\SED.EXE: Unterminated `s' command
V:\BIN\SED.EXE: Unknown command
V:\BIN\SED.EXE: file conftest.s1 line 1: Unknown command

This is all very informative, but it doesn't say much about WHERE 
it actually fails, and configure is not a very self-explanatory script. I 
am also not a sed wizard.

I am using sed 2.05 binary provided by 'Mikey' on ftp.franken.de in 
sed205-ming.tar.bz2, under bash 2.04 for dos, provided at djgpp 
distribution sites. (bash is one of the things i am trying to build ;)

I have also tried to build a later version of sed, in case the problem 
was due to my sed being outdated, but naturally, sed failed to 
configure itself ;)

1. Is this a common mingw-specific problem?
2. Is there a nice little workaround?

I find it shockingly improbable that i should be the first to 
experience this.