[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#4238) autogen breaks with sed 4.x

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:38:35AM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> 
> Debian 'sid' recently upgraded to sed 4.0.7.  Now running autogen.sh gives:
> 
> [jdorje@debian:~/src/freeciv/freeciv]$ ./autogen.sh
> + checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... sed: -e expression #1, char 21: 
> Invalid range end
> ./autogen.sh: line 84: [: : integer expression expected
> ./autogen.sh: line 86: [: : integer expression expected
> found , ok.
> + checking for automake >= 1.4 ... sed: -e expression #1, char 21: 
> Invalid range end
> ./autogen.sh: line 84: [: : integer expression expected
> ./autogen.sh: line 86: [: : integer expression expected
> found , ok.
> + checking for xgettext >= 0.10.36 ... sed: -e expression #1, char 21: 
> Invalid range end
> ./autogen.sh: line 84: [: : integer expression expected
> ./autogen.sh: line 86: [: : integer expression expected
> found , ok.
> + checking for msgfmt >= 0.10.36 ... sed: -e expression #1, char 21: 
> Invalid range end
> ./autogen.sh: line 84: [: : integer expression expected
> ./autogen.sh: line 86: [: : integer expression expected
> found , ok.
> + using new autoconf configuration (use --disable-autoconf2.52 to use old)
> + creating acinclude.m4
> + running aclocal ...
>    [...]
> 
> autogen works (I think), but gives these errors.
> 
> I believe the difference is that [A-z] is no longer supported as a 
> regular expression.  I think the attached patch will fix this.

Josef mentioned this. But IIRC he also said that [a-zA-Z] won't work
with other versions of sed. Josef?

        Raimar

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