freebsd stable - Aug 2003 - ethereal-0.9.13: make install fails

The make install of the latest ethereal port fails.

I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE-p10.

Any ideas?

-- Scott


(cd doc ;  make ../tethereal.1 )
../tethereal -G fields | /usr/bin/perl ./dfilter2pod.pl 
./tethereal.pod.template > tethereal.pod
/usr/bin/pod2man                      --center="The Ethereal Network 
Analyzer"  --release=0.9.13                          tethereal.pod > 
../tethereal.1
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/X11R6/bin
sed: 1: "s,^.*/,,;;s/$//": invalid command code ;
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/ethereal/work/ethereal-0.9.13.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/ethereal/work/ethereal-0.9.13.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/ethereal/work/ethereal-0.9.13.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/ethereal.

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:45:59PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote:
> 
> The make install of the latest ethereal port fails.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE-p10.
> 
> Any ideas?
[...]
> /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/X11R6/bin
> sed: 1: "s,^.*/,,;;s/$//": invalid command code ;
[...]

The problem is caused by the redundant semicolon separating the 's'
commands in the sed command string -- only one semicolon is necessary,
and versions of FreeBSD before 4.7 didn't accept any more than one.
Try updating src/usr.bin/sed to RELENG_4_7, RELENG_4_8 or RELENG_4
(depending on how much risk you're willing to take), or modify the
mkinstalldirs script to avoid generating redundant semicolons.

Otherwise, you could apply this patch to src/usr.bin/sed/compile.c by hand:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/sed/compile.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22

You shouldn't have to do any of these things, though. I think the ethereal
port or one of the GNU auto* tools is at fault here.


Tim