This patch is needed to work around the autoconf limitation reported in <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/6620>.
2009-04-05 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Work around an autoconf limitation. * gnulib-tool (func_emit_lib_Makefile_am): Omit the "Reproduce by" comment line if it would be longer than 3 KB. *** gnulib-tool.orig 2009-04-06 02:59:48.000000000 +0200 --- gnulib-tool 2009-04-06 02:48:39.000000000 +0200 *************** *** 1953,1959 **** echo "## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in." func_emit_copyright_notice if test -n "$actioncmd"; then ! echo "# Reproduce by: $actioncmd" fi echo uses_subdirs= --- 1953,1966 ---- echo "## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in." func_emit_copyright_notice if test -n "$actioncmd"; then ! # The maximum line length (excluding the terminating newline) of any file ! # that is to be preprocessed by config.status is 3070. config.status uses ! # awk, and the HP-UX 11.00 awk fails if a line has length >= 3071; ! # similarly, the IRIX 6.5 awk fails if a line has length >= 3072. ! len=`echo "$actioncmd" | wc -c` ! if test -n "$len" && test "$len" -le 3000; then ! echo "# Reproduce by: $actioncmd" ! fi fi echo uses_subdirs=