[sed] command failure? Porting a project to FreeBSD

[blubee blubeeme]

Ahhh, that was it. Doing a find and ask to replace all instances of sed
with gsed passed that part.

By the way, is knowledge like this written down somewhere centralized or is
it just floating in the ether?

Thank you,
Owen

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017, 14:26 Jov <amutu at amutu.com> wrote:

> The default sed on FreeBSD is different from GNU sed,there is some limit
> for bsd sed.You can try to patch the makefile to using gsed.
>
> 2017-06-07 14:10 GMT+08:00 blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am trying to bring these updated print drivers to FreeBSD:
>> https://github.com/utsushi/utsushi.git
>>
>>
>> There's the automake scripts in there that's sorta helpful but I seem to
>> have gotten stuck with something.
>>
>> I made sure that my environmental variables are set
>> LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib
>> CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include
>>
>> i run autoreconf -fmi
>> that does it's thing and everything goes smoothly
>>
>> ./configure also seems to run just fine
>>
>> when I run make there's a problem; sed command just hangs, it's been there
>> for hours now and no change.
>>
>> the line in the makefile looks like this:
>> $(srcdir)/utsushi/tag.hpp $(srcdir)/lib/tag.cpp: $(srcdir)/lib/tag.xml \
>>   $(srcdir)/lib/tag.xsl
>> format=`echo $@ | sed 's|.*\.\([^.]*\)$$|\1|'`; \
>> sed -n \
>>    -e "/^<!--/s/\.xml ::/.$$format --/" \
>>    -e '/^<!--/,/-->/{ /-->/d; s|^$$|//|p; s|^....|//|p; }' $< > $@; \
>> xsltproc --stringparam format $$format $(srcdir)/lib/tag.xsl $< >> $@
>> sed -i 's/SEC_N_("%1%")/"%1%"/' $@
>>
>> I am not the best with sed but I feel like there might be some issues; I
>> am
>> running tcsh shell, it could be it or that command is malformed.
>>
>> Trying to run the same make file with gmake, I get this output.
>>
>> format=`echo lib/tag.cpp | sed 's|.*\.\([^.]*\)$|\1|'`; \
>> sed -n \
>>     -e "/^<!--/s/\.xml ::/.$format --/" \
>>     -e '/^<!--/,/-->/{ /-->/d; s|^$|//|p; s|^....|//|p; }' lib/tag.xml >
>> lib/tag.cpp; \
>> xsltproc --stringparam format $format ./lib/tag.xsl lib/tag.xml >>
>> lib/tag.cpp
>> sed -i 's/SEC_N_("%1%")/"%1%"/' lib/tag.cpp
>> sed: 1: "lib/tag.cpp": extra characters at the end of l command
>> gmake: *** [Makefile:1042: lib/tag.cpp] Error 1
>>
>> extra character at the end of | command. It's a bit unclear to me.
>>
>> There's a tags.xml and tags.xsl in the ./lib/ directory so it seems to be
>> a
>> sed issue.
>>
>> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>> Owen
>>
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