Dear all I tried to install gnome using macports on my G4-PowerBook running Mac OS X 10.4, but I was not successful (the result is attached below). I sent an email to bonzini@gnu.org (as indicated in the error log), who replied (i) that he is only responsible for gnu sed, not macports and (ii) that macports invokes sed the wrong way. Can anyone help or shed some light on this problem? Matthias ----------------- sudo port install gnome Password: ---> Configuring libxslt Error: reinplace: sed: invalid option -- E Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]... -n, --quiet, --silent suppress automatic printing of pattern space -e script, --expression=script add the script to the commands to be executed -f script-file, --file=script-file add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) -l N, --line-length=N specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command --posix disable all GNU extensions. -r, --regexp-extended use extended regular expressions in the script. -s, --separate consider files as separate rather than as a single continuous long stream. -u, --unbuffered load minimal amounts of data from the input files and flush the output buffers more often --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are specified, then the standard input is read. E-mail bug reports to: bonzini@gnu.org . Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field. Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: reinplace sed(1) failed Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gnome-desktop- suite bug-buddy evolution-data-server gnome-platform-suite gnome-vfs dbus xmlto libxslt dbus-glib howl neon openssl gnome-vfs-monikers gtk- doc scrollkeeper docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook- xml-4.5 libbonoboui libgnome libgnomeui gnome-keyring libsoup nspr gnome-desktop fribidi gnome-doc-utils iso-codes py25-gobject python25 py25-libxml2 py25-numeric startup-notification gnome-menus libgtop gnome-terminal vte py25-gtk py25-cairo control-center desktop-file- utils gnome-panel libwnck shared-mime-info gst-plugins-base cdparanoia gstreamer bison flex gzip py25-wxpython wxWidgets libsdl libsdl_mixer libogg libvorbis smpeg liboil libtheora libgnomekbd libxklavier metacity gnome-themes gtk-engines2 icon-naming-utils p5- xml-simple p5-test-simple p5-test-harness p5-xml-namespacesupport p5- xml-sax nautilus eel libexif librsvg libcroco libgsf dasher gnome- speech gnome-mag eog libgnomeprintui gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon- theme libgnomeprint libgnomecups cups-headers evince avahi dbus- python25 gdbm libdaemon py25-gdbm poppler poppler-data file-roller gcalctool gconf-editor gdm gedit gtksourceview gnuregex gtkspell2 aspell gnome-applets gnome-audio gnome-backgrounds gnome-games gnome- python-desktop py25-gnome libzvt gnome-session py25-orbit guile gmp readline ncurses ncursesw gnome-keyring-manager gnome-media gnome- system-monitor gnome-user-docs gnome-utils gnopernicus gst-plugins- good flac id3lib libcaca libcdio libcddb libshout2 speex taglib wavpack gucharmap libgail-gnome libgtkhtml3 seahorse gpgme gnupg bzip2 libgpg-error pth system-tools-backends vino gnutls libgcrypt libtasn1 lzo opencdk yelp firefox-x11 zip libgtkhtml zenity Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. ------- Matthias Brennwald Lägernstrasse 6 CH 8037 Zürich +41 (0)44 364 17 03 matthias@brennwald.org