[Surfraw-devel] tool versions and surfraw

James Rowe jnrowe at ukfsn.org
Thu Mar 2 19:37:57 UTC 2006


* Moritz Muehlenhoff (jmm at inutil.org) wrote:
> James Rowe wrote:
> >   Whilst attempting to update the Gentoo package of surfraw I suffered
> > a build failure resulting from the quoting in the multi-line sed calls in
> > Makefile.include(log attached).  To be quite honest I can't understand why
> > multiple expression options weren't used instead, but I'm guessing there
> > must be a reason.
> > 
> >   So my question is what version of make are you using that accepts the
> > quoting and indentation used in the Makefile?  And is there a reason a more
> > normal construction, such as in the patch attached, isn't used?
> 
> Surfraw has already been adapted to the new make behaviour a few days
> ago, you can grab the copy of 2.1.3 at
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/surfraw/surfraw_2.1.3.tar.gz

  Neither the 2.1.3 release or CVS contain such a fix, and so fail in
exactly the same way.

> If you've made further Gentoo-specific changes I'd be appreciated if you
> coud send them along for merging.

  Will do.  Up until the 2.1.2 release I'd actually assumed the project had
fizzled out, so I pushed surfraw down my TODO list :/

Jay

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