So yesterday I finally decided to upgrade my machine to glibc2.1. Well, the upgrade of over 70 packages went very smoothly--many thanks, apt developers!
Anyway, after upgrading I ran into a problem while running dh_make. Seems it doesn't like some of the sed expressions in there, but I can't figure out why. After typing in the kind of package I intend to make, 12 of the following lines are printed: sed: -e expression #1, char 16: Unterminated `s' command By putting echo statements in various places the best I can tell is that the messages are printed in response to at least the following line in the function process_file() -e "s&#DOCS#&$DOCS&g" \ I've looked through the man and info pages for sed and cannot figure out what is the matter. If I isolate this line, -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/g" \ though, everything is fine. And I've substituted slashes for the ampersands in the problem line and still it doesn't help. Then this morning I received a (long) error output from /etc/cron.daily/dwww Apparently it is related, because there are many of the following lines sed: -e expression #1, char 29: Unknown option to 's' followed by the following: Number found where operator expected at -e line 8, near "26 06" (Missing operator before 06?) syntax error at -e line 8, near "26 06" Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 8, near "s/DATE/Mon Apr 26 +06:25:07 /etc" syntax error at -e line 8, near "s/DATE/Mon Apr 26 06:25:07 /etc" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. And these seem to arise from the file /usr/sbin/dwww-build One place that brings up the sed error is the following from the man_by_name function in dwww-build: sed "s/LETTER/$i/g;s/TITLE/$DWWW_TITLE/g" \ $lib/man-begins-with.start \ > $tgttmp/man/byname/$i/index.html Now for the big question :) Does anyone know how I can get solve these problems? I am now running all the latest from potato. I know this is a long message, but I wanted to give enough information to be helpful. And as usual, if any more help or information is needed, I'll be glad to provide it. Thanks! James