trouble building gnu parallel 20111022

[Jesse Alama]

Anyone else seeing this behavior when building GNU parallel 20111022 on 
Mac OS X 10.7?

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./configure --prefix=/sw
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /sw/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /sw/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
make
make  all-recursive
Making all in src
pod2man --release='20111022' --center='parallel' \
                --section=1 ./parallel.pod > ./parallel.1
pod2man --release='20111022' --center='parallel' \
                --section=1 ./sem.pod > ./sem.1
pod2man --release='20111022' --center='parallel' \
                --section=1 ./sql > ./sql.1
pod2man --release='20111022' --center='parallel' \
                --section=1 ./niceload.pod > ./niceload.1
./sem --fg --id pod2html pod2html ./parallel.pod > ./parallel.html
./sem --fg --id pod2html pod2html ./sem.pod > ./sem.html
./sem --fg --id pod2html pod2html ./sql > ./sql.html
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 191.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 268.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in exec at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Can't exec "": No such file or directory at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in join or string at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 271.
open3: exec of  -c pod2html ./parallel.pod  failed at ./sem line 3421
make[2]: *** [parallel.html] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 191.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 268.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in exec at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Can't exec "": No such file or directory at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in join or string at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 271.
open3: exec of  -c pod2html ./sem.pod  failed at ./sem line 3421
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 191.
make[2]: *** [sem.html] Error 1
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 268.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in exec at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Can't exec "": No such file or directory at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 270.
Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in join or string at 
/System/Library/Perl/5.12/IPC/Open3.pm line 271.
open3: exec of  -c pod2html ./sql  failed at ./sem line 3421
make[2]: *** [sql.html] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
### execution of make failed, exit code 2
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It seems that something's going wrong with sem (or maybe even pod2html).

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Jesse Alama
http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~alama/