Should automake split long lines? During the sed substitution in autoconf, the default sed used on Solaris 2.6 and 7 will truncate long lines in Makefile.in's. I submitted a patch to autoconf to use the "best" sed available on the system but Paul Eggert brought up the issue of the invalid use of long lines in Makefile.am/in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2005-02/msg00024.html
So, should automake change lines like: foo_SOURCES = [long list of sources] to the following in Makefile.in: foo_SOURCES = $(foo_SOURCES_1) $(foo_SOURCES_2) ... foo_SOURCES_1 = [list of sources < 2048 chars] foo_SOURCES_2 = [list of sources < 2048 chars] ... This doesn't take into consideration substitutions on the RHS but there's nothing that can be done with that apriori. -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
