Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruce,

* Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:37:51PM CET:
> What is it really trying to say?
> I'm not a real perl expert.....Thank you!
> 
> > $ autoreconf --force --install --verbose --symlink
> > autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> > autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
> > sed: invalid option -- 'q'
> > Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...
> > 
> >   -n, --quiet, --silent
> [.....]

This comes probably from autoreconf, not from aclocal.
What system is it on?  What does
  (echo 1; echo 2) | sed 1q

print on this system?

Thanks,
Ralf