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

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

On 08/31/2009 10:41 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Paolo Bonzini wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:00:01PM CEST:
> > > 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. :-(
>
> Just use
>    AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([Makefile], [commands to fix up Makefile])
>
> and do whatever $extrasub did yourself in those commands.

If you do want to fix HP-UX sed, this indeed seems like a better plan.

Paolo