While still working to prove Bob wrong on the fixincludes sed issues, I found out that current toplevel config.status hits the program length limit of HP-UX 11.11 sed:
$ ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile sed: There are too many commands for the s&@abs_builddir@&/home/rwild/gcc/build-hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11&;t t function. This is due to the large number of commands added to $extrasub in configure.ac (around 80 in this case); the limit is (autoconf.info): | HP-UX sed has a limit of 99 | commands (not counting `:' commands) and 48 labels, which can not | be circumvented by using more than one script file. [...] It seems to be possible for now to work around it by hacking Autoconf's status.m4 to omit the 't t' commands: $ diff -C 2 config.status config.status1 *** config.status Mon Aug 31 18:41:02 2009 --- config.status Mon Aug 31 18:40:49 2009 *************** *** 1079,1093 **** :t /@[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*@/!b ! s|@configure_input@|$ac_sed_conf_input|;t t ! s&@top_builddir@&$ac_top_builddir_sub&;t t ! s&@top_build_prefix@&$ac_top_build_prefix&;t t ! s&@srcdir@&$ac_srcdir&;t t ! s&@abs_srcdir@&$ac_abs_srcdir&;t t ! s&@top_srcdir@&$ac_top_srcdir&;t t ! s&@abs_top_srcdir@&$ac_abs_top_srcdir&;t t ! s&@builddir@&$ac_builddir&;t t ! s&@abs_builddir@&$ac_abs_builddir&;t t ! s&@abs_top_builddir@&$ac_abs_top_builddir&;t t ! s&@INSTALL@&$ac_INSTALL&;t t $ac_datarootdir_hack " --- 1079,1093 ---- :t /@[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*@/!b ! s|@configure_input@|$ac_sed_conf_input| ! s&@top_builddir@&$ac_top_builddir_sub& ! s&@top_build_prefix@&$ac_top_build_prefix& ! s&@srcdir@&$ac_srcdir& ! s&@abs_srcdir@&$ac_abs_srcdir& ! s&@top_srcdir@&$ac_top_srcdir& ! s&@abs_top_srcdir@&$ac_abs_top_srcdir& ! s&@builddir@&$ac_builddir& ! s&@abs_builddir@&$ac_abs_builddir& ! s&@abs_top_builddir@&$ac_abs_top_builddir& ! s&@INSTALL@&$ac_INSTALL& $ac_datarootdir_hack " but in the long run (or short, if you add another couple of directories) we might have to either - require a better sed, - split the script in two inside Autoconf (if $extrasub is nonempty), - allow for extra sed scripts here. Should I write a patch for omitting the 't t'? Cheers, Ralf
