Hi Guile I'm trying to compile guile 3 from source code under Mac OS 10.15 with macports, because the 3.0 version is not available in macports. after compiled bdwgc from the source code, I can compile guile 3 successfully, but it failed at 'make install' with the following error: Must remake target `install-data-hook'. Putting child 0x7f8549f04450 (install-data-hook) PID 98725 on the chain. Live child 0x7f8549f04450 (install-data-hook) PID 98725 Reaping winning child 0x7f8549f04450 PID 98725 Live child 0x7f8549f04450 (install-data-hook) PID 98726 /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libguile-3.0-gdb.scm /opt/local/lib/libguile-3.0.a-gdb.scm *sed: -e: No such file or directory* Reaping losing child 0x7f8549f04450 PID 98726 make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1 Removing child 0x7f8549f04450 PID 98726 from chain. Reaping losing child 0x7f9c9e723fb0 PID 98724 make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 Removing child 0x7f9c9e723fb0 PID 98724 from chain. Reaping losing child 0x7f89e501d110 PID 98618 make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 After a while of digging into the Makefile, I found out it caused by the 'sed -i -e ..." for: libguile/Makefile.am: ## Instantiate a template. INSTANTIATE = \ * $(SED) -i -e 's,[@]pkgdatadir[@],$(pkgdatadir),g' \* -e 's,[@]pkglibdir[@],$(pkglibdir),g' \ -e 's,[@]GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION[@],$(GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION),g' ... install-data-hook: libguile-@GUILE_EFFECTIVE_VERSION@-gdb.scm ... echo " $(INSTALL_DATA) $< \ $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$libname-gdb.scm"; \ $(INSTALL_DATA) "$<" \ "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$libname-gdb.scm"; \ $(INSTANTIATE) "$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$$libname-gdb.scm" The /usr/bin/sed on Mac OS 10.15, the BSD sed, it's a bit different from the sed on Linux, the "-i" option must be followed a SUFFIX option. Simply, change it to sed -i "" -e ... works for me, there would be a better solution for it. Thanks Hong