From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, bonzini@gnu.org
Subject: Re: toplevel configure hits sed program length limit on HP-UX
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9C2BF9.9070502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831185418.GC31114@gmx.de>
On 08/31/09 12:54, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> While still working to prove Bob wrong on the fixincludes sed issues,
> I found out that current toplevel config.status hits the program length
> limit of HP-UX 11.11 sed:
>
> $ ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> sed: There are too many commands for the s&@abs_builddir@&/home/rwild/gcc/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11&;t t function.
>
> This is due to the large number of commands added to $extrasub in
> configure.ac (around 80 in this case); the limit is (autoconf.info):
>
It's been the case for eons that various configury bits have blown out
the hpux-sed. I vaguely recall hacks in Cygnus's trees to split big sed
scripts into smaller pieces -- but with my hpux machines gathering
layers of dust, I haven't kept a copy of the script.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-31 19:57 Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-31 20:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-31 20:41 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-31 21:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-31 23:05 ` Ralf Wildenhues
2009-08-31 21:07 ` Jeff Law [this message]
2009-08-31 21:31 ` Ralf Wildenhues
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