I can reproduce the sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code "
error with the minimum configure.ac which contains LT_LANG(C++) which calls _LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG, which calls AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_LD_SHLIBS, which calls AC_LIBTOOL_POSTDEP_PREDEP, which has # The `*' in the case matches for architectures that use `case' in # $output_verbose_cmd can trigger glob expansion during the loop # eval without this substitution. output_verbose_link_cmd="`$echo \"X$output_verbose_link_cmd\" | $Xsed -e \"$no_glob_subst\"`" where # Sed substitution to avoid accidental globbing in evaled expressions no_glob_subst='s/\*/\\\*/g' Before output_verbose_link_cmd is "no_globbed", its value is $CC -shared $CFLAGS -v conftest.$objext 2>&1 | $GREP conftest.$objext | $SED -e "s:-lgcc -lc -lgcc::" The great part is this is a ksh quoting problem: ================= foo ================== CC=cc SED=sed GREP=grep echo=echo Xsed='sed -e s/^X//' no_glob_subst='s/\*/\\\*/g' output_verbose_link_cmd="$CC -shared $CFLAGS -v conftest.$objext 2>&1 | $GREP conftest.$objext | $SED -e \"s:-lgcc -lc -lgcc::\"" echo "output_cmd: ($output_verbose_link_cmd)" output_verbose_link_cmd="`$echo \"X$output_verbose_link_cmd\" | $Xsed -e \"$no_glob_subst\"`" echo "output_cmd: ($output_verbose_link_cmd)" ======================================== % sh foo output_cmd: (cc -shared -v conftest. 2>&1 | grep conftest. | sed -e "s:-lgcc -lc -lgcc::") output_cmd: (cc -shared -v conftest. 2>&1 | grep conftest. | sed -e "s:-lgcc -lc -lgcc::") % ksh foo output_cmd: (cc -shared -v conftest. 2>&1 | grep conftest. | sed -e "s:-lgcc -lc -lgcc::") sed: 1: ""s/\*/\\\*/g"": invalid command code " output_cmd: () Oh joy... (ksh version @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2) Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
