Re: [Texi2html-bug] build failure on Darwin <= 7.9 due to outdated mdate-sh

[Derek Price]

Thanks for the report.  I have updated mdate-sh as well as the other
files provided by Automake for the 1.82 release.

Regards,

Derek


Martijn Dekker wrote:
> texihtml 1.80 and earlier versions refuse to build on Darwin 7.9 (Mac OS
> X 10.3) and earlier due to an outdated version of `mdate-sh' included in
> the distribution, which breaks on this OS:
> 
> $ ./mdate-sh ./configure.ac
> 03:44 January ./configure.ac
> 
> (Expected output: 2 January 2009)
> 
> This leads to a build failure while trying to build the man page:
> 
> $ make
> Making all in .
> /bin/sh ./buildt2h.sh texi2html texi2html_configured.pl MySimple.pm
> T2h_i18n.pm texi2html.init translations.pl examples/l2h.init T2h_l2h.pm
> regenerating texi2html from MySimple.pm T2h_i18n.pm texi2html.init
> translations.pl texi2html_configured.pl examples/l2h.init T2h_l2h.pm
> chmod a+x texi2html
> Making all in doc
> Generating texi2html.1...
> sed: 1: "s/address@hidden@]/03 ...": bad flag in substitute command: 'c'
> make[1]: *** [texi2html.1] Error 1
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> 
> Solution is to replace both included copies of mdate-sh (in the main
> directory and in doc/) by a newer version, such as the version
> 2007-03-30.02 (I found it included in the automake-1.10 distribution),
> which supports Darwin's odd `ls' output format. After rerunning
> `configure', the build succeeds then.
> 
> (FYI, I ran into this while building texi2html 1.78 as a dependency of
> tetex in MacPorts.)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> - Martijn Dekker, Groningen, Netherlands
> 
> 


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