Subject: bug#39999: make install fails on mac (Catilina, Guile-3.0.1)

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:11:09 +0100

Hi,

Massimiliano Gubinelli <[email-masked]> skribis:

>  make install on the last Guile 3.0.1 fails on my Mac (Catilina) with the following message
>
>
>  ../build-aux/install-sh -c -d '/Users/mgubi/t/guile3-usr/include/guile/3.0/libguile'
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 version.h scmconfig.h '/Users/mgubi/t/guile3-usr/include/guile/3.0/libguile'
> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make  install-data-hook
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libguile-3.0-gdb.scm				/Users/mgubi/t/guile3-usr/lib/libguile-3.0.a-gdb.scm
> sed: -e: No such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [install] Error 2

I suppose the ‘sed’ invocation in the INSTANTIATE variable in Makefile
assumes we’re using GNU sed, which is probably not the case on your
machine.

> I found that the following change to libguile/Makefile go around the problem
>
> INSTANTIATE = \
>   $(SED) -i '' -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],$(pkgdatadir),g'                          \
>             -e 's,[@]pkglibdir[@],$(pkglibdir),g'                               \
>             -e 's,[@]GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION[@],$(GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION),g’

What if you move ‘-i’ last, and without ''?  That should expand to
something like:

  sed -e … -e … -e … -i libguile-3.0-gdb.scm

Thanks,
Ludo’.