Solaris sed problems (was Re: top level build problem...)

[Joel Sherrill]

Dario Alcocer wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> writes:
> 
>     Joel> "Aaron J. Grier" wrote:
>     >>  On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:25:32PM -0500, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>     >>
>     >> > Comments?
>     >>
>     >> It seems like you are already assuming GNU make to build RTEMS,
>     >> so you minus well use internal GNU make functions and ditch sed
>     >> entirely, if possible.
> 
>     Joel> This particular sed is in the configure script so that is
>     Joel> not possible.
> 
>     Joel> And even worse... configure uses sed to generate Makefile's
>     Joel> from Makefile.in's.  I don't see any easy way to generate a
>     Joel> valid Makefile in the libnetworking/include directory on
>     Joel> Solaris using /bin/sed.  The set of preinstall filenames is
>     Joel> too long for /bin/sed to process.
> 
> I wonder if there's any way to process the filenames with a custom awk
> script which could be run by 'configure'.  Maybe Solaris awk doesn't
> have the limitations that Solaris sed has.  Another thought would be
> to require the 'configure' script to use GNU sed.

I think the real solution is to distribute the logic in this one include
file so it does not try to install so many header files from so
many places.

-joel