Re: failed gnome-core compilation

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com> writes:
> I am getting tons of errors like this, everything else before starting to
> create the Makefiles worked ok (I can also generate gnome-media Makefiles 
> without problems using autogen.sh:
> 
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 48: Unterminated `s' command
> ./config.status: line 353: 11188 Broken pipe             sed -e
> "$ac_comsub
> s%@configure_input@%$configure_input%g
> s%@srcdir@%$srcdir%g
> s%@top_srcdir@%$top_srcdir%g
> s%@INSTALL@%$INSTALL%g
> " $ac_file_inputs
>      11189 Done                    | ( eval "$ac_sed_cmds" )>$ac_file
> creating po/Makefile.in
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 48: Unterminated `s' command
> ./config.status: line 353: 11211 Broken pipe             sed -e
> "$ac_comsub
> s%@configure_input@%$configure_input%g
> s%@srcdir@%$srcdir%g
> s%@top_srcdir@%$top_srcdir%g
> s%@INSTALL@%$INSTALL%g
> 
> I am not a ./configure expert so if somebody would save me some time ;-).

Can you send me your config.status file.  Things like this could happen
if one the substitutions (like $configure_input, $srcdir, &c.) have an
embedded newline.  

- Hari
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