Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:48:49AM CEST:
>>
>> I've been working through some odd problems related to a user's
>> attempt to build recent coreutils snapshots on a Maemo/OS2008 system.
Just got a clarification (stale Subject was misleading).
This is for OS/2 (www.ecomstation.com Ecs v2 rc4), not Maemo/OS2008.
>> So far I've hit two problems:
>> The first affected coreutils only (configure.in):
>> The second (discovered minutes ago) affects the very latest autoconf:
>
> Thanks for the report. It would be nice to see the results of 'make
> check' of the Autoconf package with this patch applied.
Elbert just replied privately.
My patch didn't help.
It's failing with sed's unterminated `s' command,
which makes me think this related code is the true culprit:
cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
sed "s/$ac_cr\$//; s/$ac_cr/$ac_cs_awk_cr/g" < "$tmp/subs1.awk" >
"$tmp/subs.awk" \
|| AC_MSG_ERROR([could not setup config files machinery])
_ACEOF
When $ac_cr is ^M on a system where that is also the EOL marker,
that's exactly the error you'd get, just as on a NL-based system,
you get this:
nl='
'
sed "s/$nl//"
sed: -e expression #1, char 2: unterminated `s' command
Now, I wonder if this is a fundamental violation of assumptions.
Elbert, I don't know if there are actually any important ^M bytes in
coreutils' case, but you might be able to proceed at least with coreutils
configuration if you change these lines:
cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
sed "s/$ac_cr\$//; s/$ac_cr/$ac_cs_awk_cr/g" < "$tmp/subs1.awk" >
"$tmp/subs.awk" \
|| { { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not setup config files
machinery" >&5
$as_echo "$as_me: error: could not setup config files machinery" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
_ACEOF
to these (i.e., change the sed... to mv...
cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<\_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
mv "$tmp/subs1.awk" "$tmp/subs.awk" \
|| { { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: could not setup config files
machinery" >&5
$as_echo "$as_me: error: could not setup config files machinery" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
_ACEOF
