Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-04-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Elbert Pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attach the log file This is the relevant part: checking for struct spwd.sp_pwdp... no^M checking for getspnam... no^M checking for library containing crypt... none required^M + c=./configure.ac^M + re=^gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])^M + sed -n

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-03-25 21:30:58 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Thanks for this portability analysis. I agree that it is a violation of POSIX; perhaps someone should report this to the busybox maintainers. I can't reproduce the problem with BusyBox v1.9.2 (now in Debian). But I don't know when BusyBox will be

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 3/22/2008 12:20 PM: | $ busybox sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp | }' configure.ac | sed: No previous regexp. | [Exit 1] | | This appears to be a busybox limitation. | I expect to work

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-24 Thread Elbert Pol
Hello all, I wonder why on this question is a verry quick response, and i posted 2 times a same sort of question and i got no response at all... Is this because i use os/2 ? checking for getspnam... no checking for library containing crypt... none required configure: error: internal

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-22 19:20:37 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: This appears to be a busybox limitation. I expect to work around it with this patch: ... Thanks, I could build the coreutils on the N810. Thanks for the quick confirmation. I pushed that change.

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When configuring coreutils 6.10 on my Nokia N810 (Linux Maemo/OS2008, using BusyBox v1.6.1), I get: [...] configure: error: internal error: g'l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG's 2nd arg, , does not match the list of default-not-installed

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-22 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ busybox sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp }' configure.ac sed: No previous regexp. [Exit 1] From (autoconf)Limitations of Usual Tools:: Commands inside { } brackets are further restricted. Posix says that

Re: configure fails on Maemo/OS2008 (sed: no previous regexp)

2008-03-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ busybox sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp }' configure.ac sed: No previous regexp. [Exit 1] From (autoconf)Limitations of Usual Tools:: Commands inside { } brackets are