Re: WARNING - Python 1.2 and Linux

Gerd Rausch (gerd@alf.gun.de)
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 18:47:32 GMT

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>>>>> "George" == George M Sipe <gsipe@rebel.atl.ga.us> writes:
In article <3mn6ss$br2@nntp4.mindspring.com> gsipe@rebel.atl.ga.us (George M. Sipe) writes:

George> In the README file it suggests for Linux:
George> It is possible that "makesetup" fails with an obscure sed
George> error. This is a bug in bash. Replace /bin/sh with /bin/ash
George> in both makesetup and Makefile.pre.in. This has been observed
George> in Slackware version 2.2, bash 1.14.3; Slackware 2.1 did not
George> have the problem.

Another solution, that worked for me at least, is:
Replace in makesetup

NL="\\
"

with

NL='\
'

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