Re: [hylafax-users] sed-3.02.80

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

On 2002.04.23 17:41 Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a developer for Gentoo linux, and I am trying to create a build
> script for hylafax-4.1.2 for Gentoo linux users.  We use GNU sed-3.02.80.
> 
> Without Daniel Robbins' (:P) patch, configure complains with the c++
> error
> that has been discussed on this list before.  After the patch, configure
> succeeds, but the Makefile that it generates is horrendous. I have
> attached that to this e-mail.

Daniel Robbins' patch just wasn't complete.

> If anyone can supply any clues for a successful compilation of
> hylafax-4.1.2 with GNU sed-3.02.80 I would be appreciative.

See the attached.  The problem is with configure's usage of 'sed -f' (or 
rather, the file syntax being used).  Beats me, though, if I know what it 
is.

Lee.
diff -Nru hylafax.orig/configure hylafax/configure
--- hylafax.orig/configure	Fri Apr 19 06:50:49 2002
+++ hylafax/configure	Wed Apr 24 02:08:20 2002
@@ -1353,7 +1353,9 @@
     WARNING="Warning, this file was automatically created by the HylaFAX configure script"
     $RM confsed1; dumpvars "$VAR1" | sort>confsed1
     $RM confsed2; dumpvars "$VAR2" | sort>confsed2
+    unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
     $RM xdefs; sed -f confsed1 $SRCDIR/defs.in | sed -f confsed2 >$1
+    export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 }
 
 # NB: save original values for use in checks below
@@ -4524,7 +4526,9 @@
 	    # the comparison (this assumes dates are used in lines
 	    # of the form DATE: @DATE@).
 	    #
+	    unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
 	    $RM $F.new; $SED -f confsed1 $SRCDIR/$F.in | $SED -f confsed2 > $F.new
+	    export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 	    $RM confx; $SED '/DATE:/d' $F.new >confx
 	    $RM confy; $SED '/DATE:/d' $F >confy 2>/dev/null
 	    if cmp -s confx confy >/dev/null 2>&1; then
@@ -4535,9 +4539,12 @@
 	    fi
 	else
 	    Note "Creating $F from $SRCDIR/$F.in"
+	    unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
 	    if $SED -f confsed1 $SRCDIR/$F.in  | $SED -f confsed2 >$F.new; then
+		export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 		$RM $F; $MV $F.new $F; $CHMOD 444 $F
 	    else
+		export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
 		cat 1>&2 <<EOF
 Help, there was a problem crafting $F from $F.in.
 The command: