Re: [Bug-wget] ./bootstrap not working

[Tim Ruehsen]

Am Monday 20 August 2012 schrieb David Linn:
> Hi,
> 
> I checked out the git repo of wget and tried building it. However, when I
> run ./bootstrap, I get the following error three times.
> 
> sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unknown option to 's'.

Maybe this is a side effect of a warning.
Looking at 'bootstrap' reveals:

me=$0
...
warn()
{
  for i
  do
    echo "$i"
  done | sed -e "s/^/$me: /" >&2
}

$me must not contain any slashes ('/'), which it does (me contains 
./bootstrap)...
As soon as warn() is called, you will see the above error message.

You can test it (using bash) with:
$ export me='./bootstrap'
$ echo message | sed "s/^/$me: /"
sed: -e expression #1, char 7: unknown option to `s'

The solution would be to use an sed delimeter that is very unlikely to exist 
in $me, e.g. |

$ export me='./bootstrap'
$ echo message | sed "s|^|$me: |"

Hand-edit your bootstrap script and try again. The real error message will 
show up and might give you a hint on what's wrong.

Tim