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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: RCS compile problem
Date: 11 Oct 93 00:08:26
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In-reply-to: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu's message of 10 Oct 1993 18:41:11 GMT
In article <299l07$qnl@news.ysu.edu> ap713@yfn.ysu.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) writes:
I am trying to compile RCS version 5.6.0.1 on 386bsd 0.1 +pk 0.2.3.
It dosen't make it past the conf.h generation part. conf.sh terminates
with:
+ i=b
+ u=269
+ test 1 -lt 269
+ expr ( 1 + 269 ) / 2
syntax error
+ M=
+ expr + 1
syntax error
+ M1=
+ sed ,$s|^[^#/][^/]*|/* & */| a.ha
sed: Unknown command
+ exit
I have tried this with GNU sed 1.18 and an older version of the same
Help!
thank you,
Chris Mikkelson
--
Try changing the command to
sed '1,$ s|^[^#/][^/]*|/* & */|' a.ha
I've seen some versions of sed that want a space after the "search string"
and before the command. I'm also a bit dubious about the lack of the
"from" bit in the search spec.
Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>