GNU bug report logs - #40954
Guile 3.0.2 Fails to compile on macOS Catalina

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From: wlharvey4 <at> mac.com
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: Guile 3.0.2 Fails to compile on macOS Catalina
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:40:04 -0700

The following line in:

libguile Makefile target: install-data-hook during a “make install” call

results in a "sed -e file not found" error and stops installation.

$(INSTANTIATE) "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$libname-gdb.scm”

When it is removed from the Makefile, Guile can be installed and 

“make checkinstall” passes successfully.

The actual file installed is:

libguile-3.0.a-gdb.scm, not libguile-3.0-gdb.scm, which is in build/libguile

wlh

Message #8 received at 40954 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "W. Lincoln Harvey" <lincolnlaw <at> mac.com>
To: 40954 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: See #39999
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:28:10 -0700

This problem is discussed in #39999; sorry.  
The error is caused by MacOS using BSD sed, which requires a mandatory argument of a zero-length string to the -i option to edit a file in-place, whereas Gnu sed has an optional argument to the -i option to edit a file in-place.  
The different syntax causes the "file not found" error.

wlh

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