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

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

> In fact, I think this API shouldn't be even more encouraged.  It doesn't
> really fix things in an elegant way, and it doesn't help for other
> pending issues in the GCC tree (such as the multilib fixups that aren't
> applied in all cases; report coming up).

I agree.  However, I did not have any alternative idea when I started 
using extrasub, and do not have one now. :-(

> Well maybe, but I'm not sure whether we want another rush, nor why we
> need to decide this alongside with the extrasub issue.  override.m4
> is also about relaxing release order requirements, no?

Yes, though I'd rather not put anything more than 15-20 lines long in 
override.m4.

Paolo