Re: gnome-libs configure script messed up?

[Jorge Carvallo <Jylups usa net>]

Well, the same had happened to me!.. since I couldn't compile even ORBit from CVS,
I gave up! I asked in this list but.. no answer.. anyway, I know everybody is
working hard and I'm really looking forward for gnome 1.0
BTW: Does anybody know how to fix this error?
JC

Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   I've compiled gtk+, gtk-engines, glib, imlib, and ORBit (not in that
> order :-) ) but I can't get gnome-libs to compile.  In fact--I can't even get
> it to configure.  When I run autogen.sh, it ticks along fine, then suddenly
> prints out the following:
>
> creating Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> ./config.status: line 1: 14639 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
>      14640 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
> ./config.status: line 319: 14637 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
> " $ac_file_inputs
>      14638 Done(1)                 | ( eval "$ac_sed_cmds" )>$ac_file
> creating po/Makefile.in
> sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> ./config.status: line 1: 14662 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
>      14663 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
> creating intl/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s2 line 40: Unterminated `s' command
> ./config.status: line 1: 14685 Broken pipe             sed -f conftest.s1
>      14686 Done(1)                 | sed -f conftest.s2
>
>   It then continues and claims to have completed successfully.  But Makefile
> is empty, so I get a "no targets" error.  Is this a bug in the configure
> script itself, or is it something I'm doing?  (CVS grab is from this afternoon)
>
>   I've attached the full output of autogen, in case it helps.
>
> --
>   Daniel Burrows
>
> "I think that the surest sign that there is intelligent
>  life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
>
>   -- _Calvin and Hobbes_, Bill Watterson
>
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