--with-error-checking=none doesn't work

[Robert Pluim]

On 7/12/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
>     Stephen> Maybe we managed to give you an old, broken configure.  Do
> you
>     Stephen> have autoconf available?  If so could you try running
> autoconf,
>     Stephen> and rerunning the configure command?
>
>     Stephen> What shell are you using?
>
>     Stephen> Did this configure script come from CVS or tarballs?
>
> That confused me me because it also worked fine out of the box on my Mac.
> Rerunning autoconf (2.59) didn't help.  I'm using bash 3.00.16(1)-release
> on
> Solaris, 2.05b.0(1)-release on my Mac.
>
> Okay, I tracked it down to what I think is a misuse of GNU sed features in
> the configure script.  On my Mac:
>
>     % with_error_checking=none
>     % echo $with_error_checking | sed -e
> 's/^[a-z]*\(,\(.*\)\)\{0,1\}$/\2/'
>
> On the Solaris system at work:
>
>     % with_error_checking=none
>     % echo $with_error_checking | sed -e
> 's/^[a-z]*\(,\(.*\)\)\{0,1\}$/\2/'
>     none
>
> Maybe configure (or autoconf) is expecting too much from Sun's sed.  I
> don't
> believe older versions of sed understand the {0,1} construct do they?  I
> think that's a GNU sed invention.  If I replace that sed command with gsed
> (our local install of GNU sed), it works.



Just out of interest, does the sed in /usr/xpg4 work correctly?  The tools
there tend to be more modern on Solaris.

Robert
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