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

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 07:50:51PM -0500, Edwin Bates wrote:
> 
> Fix for file gcc/configure:
> ---------------------- Begin diff -c -----------------------
> *** configure.orig      Mon Jan 28 19:26:04 2002 
> --- configure   Mon Jan 28 19:25:24 2002 
> *************** 
> *** 7353,7358 **** 
> --- 7353,7359 ---- 
> 
>   trap 'rm -fr `echo "$all_outputs auto-host.h:config.in" | sed "s/:[^
> ]*//g"` conftest*; exit 1' 1 2 15 
>   EOF 
> + subdirs=`echo ${subdirs}` 
>   cat >> $CONFIG_STATUS <<EOF 
> 
>   # Protect against being on the right side of a sed subst in config.status.


Glad you figured it out, but I don't understand why your
patch fixes things....
Does the problem go away if you either:
(1) Set CONFIG_SHELL to /bin/ksh?
(2) Use GNU sed instead of AIX's sed?

Thanks.
-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
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