Re: toplevel configure hits sed program length limit on HP-UX

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

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