Actually it's the same in libs too:
# Split up sed streams in gl/Makefile.in
# Split up sed streams in gltests/Makefile.in
# Split up sed streams in lib/gl/Makefile.in
# Split up sed streams in lib/gltests/Makefile.in
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 15:40, Mark Ashley <m...@ibiblio.org> wrote:
> The issue still occurs in 1.24... splitting up the sed commands into
> shorter ones again lets the compile continue.
>
> Edits were done to gl/Makefile.in and gltests/Makefile.in.
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 18:31, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote:
>> Hi Simon, Mark,
>>
>>> > The problem I'm seeing on my "SunOS lap 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc"
>>> > machine is the sed commands used in the Makefile.in are too long and
>>> > the sed is freezing up.
>>
>> This was already reported in May 2011, and Paul's analysis [1] was that
>> it's a "fairly serious kernel bug". Also, Jim hit another bug of this system,
>> in /bin/sh, saying "you probably don't want to use that version of /bin/sh
>> on solaris 5.11." [2] You may try the workaround from [2], but I would
>> suggest
>> to upgrade to a newer version [3].
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-05/msg00086.html
>> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-04/msg00156.html
>> [3] http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Installing+or+Upgrading
>> --
>> In memoriam Harold Wallace Rosenthal
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wallace_Rosenthal>
