Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I am trying to compile cscope on AIX 5.3 and ran the ./configure

It seems to create the config.status file and then getting errors on

$ ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
sed: Function s,@abs_srcdir@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5,;t t cannot be parsed.
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
sed: Function s,@abs_srcdir@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5/doc,;t t cannot be parsed.
config.status: creating src/Makefile
sed: Function s,@abs_srcdir@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5/src,;t t cannot be parsed.
config.status: creating contrib/Makefile
sed: Function s,@abs_srcdir@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5/contrib,;t t cannot be parsed.
The actual SED script seems to the following. Can someone tell me what else to try? Is this a SED issue?

sed "/^[ ]*VPATH[ ]*=/{
s/:*\$(srcdir):*/:/;
s/:*\${srcdir}:*/:/;
s/:*@srcdir@:*/:/;
s/^\(^=*=[ ]*\):*/\1/;
s/:*$//;
s/^^=*=[ ]*$//;
}

:t
/@a-zA-Z_a-zA-Z_0-9*@/!b
s,@configure_input@,$configure_input,;t t
s,@srcdir@,$ac_srcdir,;t t
s,@abs_srcdir@,$ac_abs_srcdir,;t t
s,@top_srcdir@,$ac_top_srcdir,;t t
s,@abs_top_srcdir@,$ac_abs_top_srcdir,;t t
s,@builddir@,$ac_builddir,;t t
s,@abs_builddir@,$ac_abs_builddir,;t t
s,@top_builddir@,$ac_top_builddir,;t t
s,@abs_top_builddir@,$ac_abs_top_builddir,;t t
s,@INSTALL@,$ac_INSTALL,;t t
" $ac_file_inputs | (eval "$ac_sed_cmds") >$tmp/out
rm -f $tmp/stdin
if test x"$ac_file" != x-; then
mv $tmp/out $ac_file
else
cat $tmp/out
rm -f $tmp/out
fi
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Originally posted by: nagger

It is not clear which sed you are using.
As cscope is open source it probably needs GNU sed not the default AIX sed.
I guess you are using the AIX sed

You can get the GNU sed from the AIX Linux Affinity site at
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

Is there some reason you are recompiling cscope instead of using the pre-compiled version at UCLA?
i.e at http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/cscope.html

I hope this helps, N
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thank you for your time N,
I realized the issue to be a non-SED one over the weekend.

The main issue was the directory that I was trying to build cscope in.

"@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5,;"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

the sub dir is "awas,rb200620" has our beloved "," that broke sed. I moved it to a different dir and it worked fine.

sed: Function s,@abs_srcdir@,/ccm_wa/v617320/awas,rb200620/awas/cscope/cscope-15.5,;t t cannot be parsed.
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