Please describe the problem:
When trying to build file-roller from CVS HEAD using jhbuild, configure failed.
The symptom is the following:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
sed: file ./confstatVc2230/subs-2.sed line 33: unterminated `s' command
sed: couldn't write 50 items to stdout: Broken pipe

(Actual output taken from another package that failed similarly).

The problem appears to be that the contents of po/LINGUAS are assigned to the
substitution variable ALL_LINGUAS in configure.in. config.status then generates
a sed script containing the substitutions, and sed breaks because there's a
multiline string in there that's not marked as such.

In my view this is an autoconf bug, but it's easily preventable, so why not save
everyone the pain?

hpj [~] /opt/gnome/bin/autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.59
hpj [~] /opt/gnome/bin/automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6
hpj [~] /opt/gnome/bin/libtoolize --version
libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.5.22
hpj [~] /opt/gnome/bin/intltoolize --version
intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.34.90


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