Hello Jeff, * Jeff Law wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:00:57PM CEST: > On 08/31/09 12:54, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >I found out that current toplevel config.status hits the program length > >limit of HP-UX 11.11 sed:
> >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. Configury bits of GCC and src projects, or of Autoconf or other Autoconf-using projects? > 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. Autoconf used to use sed for the bulk of the substitutions (it uses awk now, which allows for better complexity), and it used to split its sed scripts into chunks fit for HP-UX sed. Cheers, Ralf
