Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Argh. Very sorry for the breakage, I'll get straight onto it. What
>> versions of the mingw+msys tools are you using? Can you please send
>> me a copy
>> of the generated libtool script, and the output you get when
>> re-running the
>> failing libtool command manually after adding the "--debug"
>> (non-modal) option?
>
> This is the problem:
>
> removedotparts="s,/\(\./\)\{1\,\},/,g;s,/\.$,/,"
>
> \, should be , (there is another occurrence).
Oops. Looks like there are different versions of SED that have different
requirements, because on cygwin SED 4.1.5, you *have* to quote the comma in
the curly-braces {min,max} repetitions specifier or it is interpreted as a
separator.
> $ sed -e 's,/\(\./\)\{1\,\},/,g;s,/\.$,/,'
> ./foo/bar/./baz
> ./foo/bar/baz
>
> $ sed -e 's,/\(\./\)\{1,\},/,g;s,/\.$,/,'
> sed: -e expression #1, char 18: unknown option to `s'
>
> $
Maybe the best thing would be to change it to use a different separator?
Ralf, have we discovered a new item for the autoconf man page "portable shell"
chapter?
> Also please single-quote the commands.
Ok, why?
cheers,
DaveK
