(BUG) sed:34:conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

[Elifarley]

I tried to compile automake 1.5 under MacOS X 10.1, but the following 
errors appear:

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[localhost:ecc/Sources/automake-1.5] root# uname -a
Darwin localhost 1.4 Darwin Kernel Version 1.4: Sun Sep  9 15:39:59 PDT 
2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc

[localhost:ecc/Sources/automake-1.5] root# ./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: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Automake/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/am/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating m4/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating tests/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating automake
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating aclocal
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
[localhost:ecc/Sources/automake-1.5] root#


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Have I done anything wrong ?

Regards,

Elifarley