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Re: [patch] Allow build to specify what sed mkheaders uses
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Steve Ellcey<sje@cup.hp.com> wrote:
> 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.
What's wrong with the sed that it does eventually find and decide to use?