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 <br...@clisp.org> 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>