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Re: [Texmacs-dev] sed problem in 1.0.1.7
From: |
Joris van der Hoeven |
Subject: |
Re: [Texmacs-dev] sed problem in 1.0.1.7 |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:44:42 +0100 (MET) |
> The configure script in 1.0.1.7 has the line
>
> GUILE_VERSION=`guile --version | grep 'Guile \([0-9]\)' | sed 's/Guile
> \([0-9]*\)/\1/' -`
>
> On my system (MacOSX) this gives a "sed: -: no such file or directory"
> error. The GUILE_VERSION is then undefined and this leads to a wrong
> switch in guile.hh with fatal undefined symbol errors later on.
>
> Is this dash at the end correct syntax? My sed doesn't understand it, in
> any case. When I remove it, TeXmacs-1.0.1.7 compiles OK.
I don't know; I am very bad at writing this kind of "portable" version
recognition code. Someone has a better idea? I could not find the right
option in the documentation of sed, but '-' magically worked...