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

[Jim Meyering]

Vincent Lefevre <address@hidden> 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 programs
>                    (arch hostname su) also recorded in ./src/Makefile.am

Thanks for the report.
That seems to be because you're using busybox's sed.
A snippet adapted from configure.ac:

$ busybox sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp
}' configure.ac
sed: No previous regexp.
[Exit 1]

with all other versions of sed, it does this:

$ sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* \[\(.*\)\])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp
}' /cu/configure.ac
arch hostname su