["C. L. McAvaney" <chrismc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Date:       Sun, 27 May 2001 02:17:11 -0500
    From:       ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 09:31:19PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
  > > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:16:14PM -0500, ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  > wrote:
  > > > I tried building ethereal 0.8.18 on Solaris with a long --prefix and
  > > > the compile barfed when building ethereal. With the -L paths and all
  > > > the package-* files, the command-line limit was exceeded.
  > > 
  > > The one-megabyte (unless they've reduced it in SunOS 5.x) limit in the
  > > kernel was exceeded?  Or was this a limit in, say, the C shell?  (The
  > > Bourne and Korn shells don't have a wired in limit of the sort that the
  > > C shell does.)  Or one in "make"?
  > 
  > Ok, turns out to be a limitation of sed. The problem arrises in
  > the following libtool section:
  > 
  >   # Now compile the dynamic symbol file.
  >   $show "(cd $output_objdir && $CC -c$no_builtin_flag$pic_flag_for_symtable
  > \"$dlsyms\")"
  >   $run eval '(cd $output_objdir && $CC -c$no_builtin_flag$pic_flag_for_symt
  >able "$dlsyms")' || exit $?
  > 
  >   # Clean up the generated files.
  >   $show "$rm $output_objdir/$dlsyms $nlist ${nlist}S ${nlist}T"
  >   $run $rm "$output_objdir/$dlsyms" "$nlist" "${nlist}S" "${nlist}T"
  > 
  >   # Transform the symbol file into the correct name.
  >   compile_command=`$echo "X$compile_command" | $Xsed -e "s%@SYMFILE@%$outpu
  >t_objdir/${outputname}S.${objext}%"`
  >   finalize_command=`$echo "X$finalize_command" | $Xsed -e "s%@SYMFILE@%$out
  >put_objdir/${outputname}S.${objext}%"`
  >   ;;
  > 
  > I get:
  >   Output line too long.
  >   Output line too long.
  > 
  > for the assignment to compile_command.
  > 
  > I created a /bin/sh script that made only the assignment to
  > compile_command and duplicated the failure. Using GNU sed worked fine
  > with my sample script.
G'day Albert,
Can you post the script?  I have a similar problem.

Thanks,
Christopher
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