Re: problem installing latest cogito

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jan 21, 2006, 20:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20060121200345.GL28365@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20060121144901.33b03395.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

Dear diary, on Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 08:49:01PM CET, I got a letter where sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> said that...

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> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:48:26 +0100
> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> > >                 sed -e
> > > 's/\${COGITO_LIB}/\${COGITO_LIB:-\/home\/david\/lib\/cogito\/}/g; \
> > > 
> > > s/\${COGITO_SHARE}/\${COGITO_SHARE:-\/home\/david\/share\/cogito\/}/g'
> > > \
> > >                        $file > $file.new; \
> > >                 cat $file.new > $file; rm $file.new; \
> > >         done
> > > sed: -e expression #1, char 145: unterminated address regex
> 
> The problem seems to go away if you remove the quoted end-of-line:
> 
> sed -e 's/\${COGITO_LIB}/\${COGITO_LIB:-\/home\/david\/lib\/cogito\/}/g;
>         s/\${COGITO_SHARE}/\${COGITO_SHARE:-\/home\/david\/share\/cogito\/}/g'
> 
> 
> where the following, doesn't:
> 
> sed -e 's/\${COGITO_LIB}/\${COGITO_LIB:-\/home\/david\/lib\/cogito\/}/g; \
>         s/\${COGITO_SHARE}/\${COGITO_SHARE:-\/home\/david\/share\/cogito\/}/g'

Yes, the problem goes away because then make will split that to two lines, causing:

        sed -e 's/\${COGITO_LIB}/\${COGITO_LIB:-\/home\/xpasky\/lib\/cogito\/}/g;
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

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