On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:55:48PM +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:39:18AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote: > > Is there a reason autoconf doesn't use AC_PROG_SED internally to > > select a more-appropriate sed command to use in config.status? > > > > Could we just AC_REQUIRE(AC_PROG_SED) in _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS and > > then use $SED throughout generation of config.status? > > I guess we could. The price would be that the configure script would > be bigger. Isn't it big enough already that +~1k won't really matter? > It's not just _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS which uses ``sed'', there are > more macros. I'm gonna work on this now and come up with a patch. > Have you encountered any problem on a particular platform? Yes. When building kdevelop from kde-3.3.2 on Solaris 2.6, 7, substitions in Makefile.in's with long lines gets truncated resulting in a dead build. -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
