Re: libidn 1.22: sed commands on Solaris 11 too long

[Mark Ashley]

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 <address@hidden> 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>