Re: [Fwd: [btOOL] Unable to compile on MacOs X]

[Guillaume Rousse]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Guillaume,
> 
> * Guillaume Rousse wrote on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:46:11AM CEST:
>> I tried to have a look at how sed substitutions are handled by
>> config.status, so as to help this guy, but I get lost in multiple format
>> transformations...
> 
> FWIW, this is an Autoconf question.
Right, sorry. I missed the existence of a dedicated autoconf list sofar.

> It would've helped to state which
> autotools versions were used in creating btparse version .34, better
> even, where to look at the exact tarball that the user has issues with.
I guess it is http://www.gerg.ca/software/btOOL/btparse-0.34.tar.gz,
using autoconf 2.57

>> In particular, the final 't t' at the end of each substitution pattern
>> is mysterious for me.
> 
> Reading the `sed' part of
>   info Autoconf "Limitations of Usual Tools"
> 
> helps a bit.
Thanks, I never get further than shell builtins :)

> | Here is the complete output from ./configure:
> 
> | thrasymachus:~/Applications/Lyx, LaTeX, BibTeX stuff/btparse-0.34
> | stefano$ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install...
> | /sw/bin/install -c
> | checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> | /Users/stefano/Applications/Lyx,: /Users/stefano/Applications/Lyx,: No
> | such file or directory
> 
> Just tell the user to build in a directory with a path name that does
> not contain comma nor space.  Spaces will cause lots of subtle failures.
> 
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating Makefile
>> sed: -e expression #1, char 313: unknown option to `s'
> 
> Since some substitution value contains a comma, and Autoconf-2.59 uses
> comma as the delimiter for some `s' substitutions and would not
> re-escape all to-be-substituted values, this could fail.  This has been
> fixed in Autoconf-2.59c, as far as I know.
This seems to be the issue, thanks for your help.