Re: Compiling CVS Bonobo

[Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org>]

Ravi Pratap M <ravi_pratap email com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
>     I checked out CVS HEAD bonobo and have been trying to get it to
>     compile nicely on this super-slow machine of mine.
> 
>     I seem to be running into a most mysterious error during the
>     autogen.sh process when it tries to create the various makefiles.
>     Here's what's happening :
> 
..
>     sed: file conftest.s2 line 1: Unknown command: ``(''
>     sed: file conftest.s1 line 91: Unterminated `s' command
> 
>     (... more of the same error)
> 
..
> 
>     Now type `make' to compile Bonobo
>     [ravi swathy bonobo]$ make
>     make: *** No targets.  Stop.
> 
> 
>     Any ideas on why this seems broken ? Much appreciate any help.
> 
>     Note, this does not happen with bonobo-0.37 

You are probably using HEAD xml-i18n-tools. The problem went away for
me when I switched to the xml-i18n-tools-stable-1-x branch: 

cvs update -r xml-i18n-tools-stable-1-x

It's really just coincidence that this helps. The fundamental problem
is that xml-i18n-tools specifies two-line sed scripts. All the sed
scripts in config.status end up in a big block, and autoconf makes
sure that the block is chopped into 90 line chunks which are run
separately. The bug bites when a two line sed script is divided in
two.

Regards

Jon Kåre