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sed not found but already installed

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I'm using Ubuntu 13.04. I'm trying to install ptxdist-2011.11.0 and when I run ./configure, it says it doesn't find a sed version:

    checking sed version... configure: error: we need at least GNU sed 4.x

But when I run

sudo apt-get install sed

...it's already installed (sed is already the newest version).

I've checked the version and it's 4.2.2.

Could anyone tell me what to do? I can't change the ptxdist version.

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answered 2 Years ago icielight · Accepted Answer

From ptxdist mailing list

The check for the sed fails for newer sed versions have a different version

string. This was fixed in ptxdist-2013.01.0. If you need to use older

versions, then you need to backport the relveant fix (git commit

"2a89985 configure.ac: change regex for sed version")

So I recommend using the latest version or modifying the file configure.ac according to the git commit 2a89985.

git log -p 2a89985 will show you the changes in that commit

You can clone ptxdist using

git clone git://git.pengutronix.de/git/ptxdist.git

change current working directory into the ptxdist repository

cd ptxdist

checkout your bsp ptxdist version

git checkout ptxdist-2012.03.0

grab the fix commit

git cherry-pick 2a89985

generate autotools files for the buildsystem, you will need that because the git directory doesn't contains these files.

./autogen.sh

install ptxdist in the usual way (./.configure ... && make && make install)

There should be now a new ptxdist binary in your $PATH on correct install path. Migrate the bsp for that (That's okay because we know there was only one change and this is the bugfix for the buildsystem and doesn't change anything in ptxdist).

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