Re: [Bug 154820] New: - configure breaks without GNU sed

[Raul Acevedo <raul cantara com>]

Why does this list keep getting silly bug report stuff?

Raul

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 15:31 -0400, bugzilla-daemon bugzilla gnome org
wrote:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154820
> epiphany | General | Ver: 1.4.0
> 
>            Summary: configure breaks without GNU sed
>            Product: epiphany
>            Version: 1.4.0
>           Platform: Other
>         OS/Version: Solaris
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: blocker
>           Priority: High
>          Component: General
>         AssignedTo: epiphany-maint bugzilla gnome org
>         ReportedBy: koffle bredband net
>          QAContact: marco gnome org
>                 CC: garnome-list gnome org
> 
> 
> Try to configure the package on a machine without Linux (thus without GNU sed as
> default).  The following happens:
> 
> checking for compiler -fshort-wchar option... yes
> checking for mozilla version... 1.7.3 (guessed: 1.7.3)
> configure: error: Invalid mozilla major version component: 173
> 
> When changing from Solaris 'sed' to GNU 'sed', the configure script succeeds.
> 
> checking for mozilla version... 1.7.3 (guessed: 1.7.3)
> checking for /opt/gnome-2.8/include/mozilla-1.7.3/pipnss/nsIX509Cert.h... yes
> checking for /opt/gnome-2.8/include/mozilla-1.7.3/nsIPassword.h... yes
> checking locale.h usability... yes
> 
> So, make sure that 'sed' in this line:
> 
> dnl Split up the version string ( 1.7rc1 -> 1 7 rc 1 )
> version=$(echo $MOZILLA_VERSION | /opt/sfw/bin/gsed -e
> 's/\(@<:@0-9@:>@\+\|@<:@a-z@:>@\+\)/\1 /g' -e 's/\.//g')
> 
>  from configure.in is GNU 'sed'!
> 
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