gdal above 1.2.3 not building

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:36:42 +0100, Benjamin Thelen <bt at ccgis.de> wrote:
> Hi list, hello Frank,
>
> I have a SuSE 9.0 with gcc-3.3.1 running and try to install
> gdal-1.2.5. I receive the following error at the end of ./configure. I
> suppose, that this is the reason why "make" stops. The same ist true
> for gdal-1.2.4.
>
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating GDALmake.opt
> sed: file ./confstatuuF913/subs-3.sed line 16: Unterminated `s' command
> config.status: creating port/cpl_config.h
> config.status: port/cpl_config.h is unchanged
>
> GDAL is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> GDALmake.opt is empty!?
>
> It is no problem to build gdal-1.2.3 and it is also no problem to
> build newer versions than 1.2.3 on debian with gcc-2.95.
>
> I hope to get Mr.SID support compiled successfully into the newer
> versions, because this files on 1.2.3 and earlier.

Benjamin,

This is a bug with the mysql autoconfiguration logic.
Just add --without-mysql to the configure line.  This
should be fixed in CVS though, apparently the fix did
not make it into the 1.2.5 version.

Best regards,
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