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Re: [patch] Allow build to specify what sed mkheaders uses
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:04 -0400, NightStrike wrote:
> Why doesn't autoconf like the sed you are trying to use? Are you
> using portable sed scripts to modify fixincludes? See the recent
> compile breakage on mingw hosts.
I think the HP-UX sed will truncate very long inputs. This isn't a
problem for mkheaders because none of the sed fixes that mkheaders uses
on HP-UX are long enough to trigger the problem. But the truncation is
enough to make autoconf determine that this isn't a POSIX compliant sed.
Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com