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

[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:
>>   "I was running this script:\n%s\nAND:\n%s"
>> which might get wrapped again by autoreconf (or not).
> 
> Hmm.
> 
>> This is GNU/Linux  -- openSuSE 11.3
>> I think it is seeing "-q" on the command line.
> 
> 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 exact versions of
> autotools programs used, and show autoreconf -v output.

There's a really good chance of that.

AC_INIT([GNU libposix],
        m4_esyscmd([./git-version-gen .tarball-version]),
        address@hidden)

$ for f in autoconf automake libtool autoreconf ; do $f --version | head -1 ; 
done
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6
autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65