Yeah, I actually had to stumble over this recently introduced buglet; Tru64 sed interprets everything between the first 't' and newline/end of script as a label, then complains about the label being longer than 6 characters. :-/
(Of course this is all duly documented in the Autoconf manual section on shell portability). Pushed both branches. Cheers, Ralf Fix nonportable sed script in 'missing'. * lib/missing: In sed script, do not use ';' after 't' commands. diff --git a/lib/missing b/lib/missing index 4758c82..32e23d2 100755 --- a/lib/missing +++ b/lib/missing @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #! /bin/sh # Common stub for a few missing GNU programs while installing. -scriptversion=2008-11-24.07 +scriptversion=2008-12-13.14 # Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, # 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ Send bug reports to <bug-autom...@gnu.org>." esac # normalize program name to check for. -program=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^gnu-//; t; s/^gnu//; t; s/^g//; t'` +program=`echo "$1" | sed ' + s/^gnu-//; t + s/^gnu//; t + s/^g//; t'` # Now exit if we have it, but it failed. Also exit now if we # don't have it and --version was passed (most likely to detect