>
> I see no problem in the Sed command which evidently failed.  If you
> run the same command from the Bash prompt, does it work?
>

What makes you think that Sed failed? It runs fine from terminal.
Furthermore, it says line 39, so it's this:

${EMACS} -batch -l "${srcdir}/uvs.el" \
  --eval '(uvs-print-table-ivd "${srcdir}/IVD_Sequences.txt"
"Adobe-Japan1")' \
  > $@

what actually failed.