Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/17/2010 09:59 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: >> Is it worth installing a temporary sed wrapper earlier in your PATH that >> outputs debugging information such as the process id of its parent if it >> detects that one of the arguments starts with -q? > > Next time I run into it. I unwound everything

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Korb
On 11/17/10 07:35, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/17/2010 08:11 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: >>> OK. I don't see where it should come from in Autoconf nor Automake. >>> Any case the package at hand contains m4_esyscmd in configure.ac that >> ^ >>> contains a

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
On 11/17/2010 08:11 AM, Bruce Korb wrote: >> OK. I don't see where it should come from in Autoconf nor Automake. >> Any case the package at hand contains m4_esyscmd in configure.ac that > ^ >> contains a buggy sed script? If not, please state ex

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Korb
On 11/16/10 23:28, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:18:50PM CET: >> On 11/16/10 12:45, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> This comes probably from autoreconf, not from aclocal. >> That is rather difficult to discern. Either way, the >> controlling program needs to say

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:18:50PM CET: > On 11/16/10 12:45, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > This comes probably from autoreconf, not from aclocal. > That is rather difficult to discern. Either way, the > controlling program needs to say: > "I was running this script:\n%s\nAND:\n%s

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-16 Thread Bruce Korb
On 11/16/10 12:45, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This comes probably from autoreconf, not from aclocal. That is rather difficult to discern. Either way, the controlling program needs to say: "I was running this script:\n%s\nAND:\n%s" which might get wrapped again by autoreconf (or not). > (echo 1; e

Re: When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruce, * Bruce Korb wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:37:51PM CET: > What is it really trying to say? > I'm not a real perl expert.Thank you! > > > $ autoreconf --force --install --verbose --symlink > > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > > a

When "aclocal" causes an error message, "sed: invalid option -- 'q'"

2010-11-16 Thread Bruce Korb
What is it really trying to say? I'm not a real perl expert.Thank you! > $ autoreconf --force --install --verbose --symlink > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext > autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 > sed: invalid option -- 'q' > Usage: sed