autogen 5.15 fails shell.hlp test case

[howarth@…]

The MacPorts autogen 5.15 package is currently not passing the autogen testsuite.
The autoopts/test/shell.test test is failing as...

FAILURE: script generator help output mismatch: *** shell.hlp	Sat Mar 17 20:12:00 2012
--- shell.help	Sat Mar 17 20:12:00 2012
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*** 1,25 ****
- genshellopt - Generate Shell Option Processing Script - Ver. 1
- USAGE: shell [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
- Flg Arg Option-Name Description
- -o Str script Output Script File
- -s Str shell Shell name (follows "#!" magic)
- - disabled as --no-shell
- - enabled by default
- -v opt version Output version information and exit
- -? no help Display extended usage information and exit
- -! no more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager
- Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
- hyphen and the flag character.
- = = = = = = = =
- This incarnation of genshell will produce
- a shell script to parse the options for test_shell:
- test_shell - Test AutoOpts for shell
- USAGE: test_shell [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... \
- reg-arg [ ... ]
- Flg Arg Option-Name Description
- -o Str option The option option descrip
- -s no second The second option descrip
- -? no help Display extended usage information and exit
- -! no more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager
- Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
- hyphen and the flag character.
--- 0 ----
FAIL: shell.test

This has been filed upstream as...

​https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=103593&aid=3507334&group_id=3593#

The autogen developers can't reproduce this failure (although I can also reproduce under fink). Any help we can give the autogen developer in debugging this apparent sed issue on darwin would be appreciated.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Just for the record, what OS version and Xcode version are you using?