* Me
> I discovered an unpleasant problem in the depcomp "sgi" dependency
> generation code: the first line of the .Plo file will get truncated
> on IRIX systems with SGI sed where the line is > 8192 characters
> (i.e. a sourcefile with a large set of dependencies).
[...]
This seems to be the same as PR21, BTW.
Here's a suggestion for a fix:
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2000-06-02 Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* depcomp: workaround for problem with SGI IRIX sed (it can only
handle lines of up to 8192 characters, the rest of the line will
be mangled).
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Index: depcomp
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/depcomp,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 depcomp
--- depcomp 1999/12/14 04:36:10 1.5
+++ depcomp 2000/06/02 07:48:14
@@ -123,7 +123,14 @@
fi
rm -f "$depfile"
echo "$object : \\" > "$depfile"
- sed 's/^[^:]*: / /' < "$tmpdepfile" >> "$depfile"
+
+ # Clip off the initial element (the dependent). Don't try to be
+ # clever and remove the tr invocations, as IRIX sed won't handle
+ # lines with more than 8192 characters.
+ tr ' ' '
+' < "$tmpdepfile" | sed 's/^[^\.]*\.o://' | tr '
+' ' ' >> $depfile
+
tr ' ' '
' < "$tmpdepfile" | \
## Some versions of the HPUX 10.20 sed can't process this invocation
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Regards,
Morten
