From: Ralf Wildenhues Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:45:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: AIX sed dislikes indented comments. X-Git-Tag: v2.68~58 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b418ae86b4fa3d85be6a9d214bb70643da14344;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git doc: AIX sed dislikes indented comments. * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) : Update. Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index d9e9112b..6d7bd7f5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2010-08-22 Ralf Wildenhues + + doc: AIX sed dislikes indented comments. + * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) : Update. + 2010-08-19 Stefano Lattarini Fix autoreconf docs w.r.t. AUTOM4TE environment variable. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index cadc7270..a20be769 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -18371,8 +18371,8 @@ them. Unicos 9 @command{sed} loops endlessly on patterns like @samp{.*\n.*}. Sed scripts should not use branch labels longer than 7 characters and -should not contain comments. HP-UX sed has a limit of 99 commands -(not counting @samp{:} commands) and +should not contain comments; AIX 5.3 @command{sed} rejects indented comments. +HP-UX sed has a limit of 99 commands (not counting @samp{:} commands) and 48 labels, which can not be circumvented by using more than one script file. It can execute up to 19 reads with the @samp{r} command per cycle. Solaris @command{/usr/ucb/sed} rejects usages that exceed a limit of