On 25 Aug., 04:17, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Did something change in prereq in the last couple alphas?  Through
> 4.7.1 I really had no trouble on Cygwin other than known problems.
> But now I get weird things like what is below 
> (seehttp://sage.math.washington.edu/home/kcrisman/cygwin-1.7.9-winxp-sage...
> for all details).
>
> Usually typing "make" again keeps it going, but with this latest alpha
> I can't even get to the first spkg, I guess.  Note that suspicious
> order of words appearing each time:
>
> installed/Error running sed to extract package name
>
> I also find "installed/Error dependency dropped." amusing.  Maybe we
> need an Error dependency :)
>
> Thanks for any help - my guess is that something weird is going on
> with a line ending or the arguments to some command, but I don't
> understand how makefiles or spkg/standard/deps *really* work (I mean,
> I can follow the implications in deps, but don't really know what
> "happens" so that it follows these implications, nor in what order),
> so I could use the help tracking this down.


'make' is irrelevant here. Apparently your 'sed' -- used by the (poor)
spkg/standard/newest_version script -- is broken, as the first error
message suggests.

(The variables in 'deps' are then messed up with error output instead
of package names.)


-leif

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