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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