configure dies for automake1.5 on MacOS 10.1

[Peter Molettiere <pietro at santoshima dot org>]

I've searched the net, read through list archives, and can't seem to 
find any reference to this sort of problem on MacOS 10.1 -- since the 
error message indicates a problem with sed, I've downloaded, compiled 
and installed gnu sed (and made sure its in the path, and rm'd 
config.cache) to make sure it wasn't a broken sed causing the problem.

I've also looked for files named conftest* but can't seem to find one...

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!


configure dies with the following error:

> [localhost:~/Santoshima/src/automake-1.5] pietro% ./configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for mawk... (cached) awk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for perl... (cached) /usr/bin/perl
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating lib/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating lib/Automake/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating lib/am/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating m4/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating tests/Makefile
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating automake
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> creating aclocal
> sed: file conftest.s1 line 34: Unterminated `s' command
> [localhost:~/Santoshima/src/automake-1.5] pietro%