RE: other/5515: ./configure fails: sed: Function s%@subdirs@% cp cannot be parsed.

[Edwin Bates <ebates at Ebix dot com>]

The following reply was made to PR other/5515; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Edwin Bates <ebates@Ebix.com>
To: 'Zack Weinberg' <zack@codesourcery.com>, Edwin Bates <ebates@Ebix.com>
Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@mediaone.net>, Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>, 
	"'rodrigc@gcc.gnu.org'" <rodrigc@gcc.gnu.org>, "'gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org'"
	 <gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>, "'gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org'" <gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org>, 
	"'nobody@gcc.gnu.org'" <nobody@gcc.gnu.org>, "'gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org'"
	 <gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>, Steve Moore <SMoore@Ebix.com>
Subject: RE: other/5515: ./configure fails: sed: Function s%@subdirs@% cp 
	cannot be parsed.
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:42:14 -0500

 That WAS GNU sed.  Same result (different error message) from AIX sed.  (I
 tried that first to make sure it wasn't something I could bypass without a
 PR.)
 
 BTW, sorry, Zack, I erroneously attributed your analysis to Craig.
 
 -- Ed
 
  -----Original Message-----
 From: 	'Zack Weinberg' [mailto:zack@codesourcery.com] 
 Sent:	Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:05 AM
 To:	Edwin Bates
 Cc:	Craig Rodrigues; Carlo Wood; 'rodrigc@gcc.gnu.org';
 'gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org'; 'gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org'; 'nobody@gcc.gnu.org';
 'gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org'; Steve Moore
 Subject:	Re: other/5515: ./configure fails: sed: Function
 s%@subdirs@% cp cannot be parsed.
 
 On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:02:58AM -0500, Edwin Bates wrote:
 > Thank you all for your input.  Carlo was correct: it's inserting a
 newline,
 > but only after the first directory (cp), and, as Craig said, it shouldn't
 be
 > doing it.  (What are you doing, AIX?)
 
 Hmmm.  Can you get a copy of GNU sed and repeat the test with it installed
 ahead of AIX sed in your PATH, please?
 
 > + echo ./cp/config-lang.in 
 > + sed -e s,^.*/\([^/]*\)/config-lang.in$,\1, 
 > subdirs= cp
 > 
 
 *boggle*
 
 zw