Re: autoconf: undocumented limitation

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Andreas Schwab wrote on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:06:55PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> > +HP-UX 11.00 and IRIX 6.5 Awk require than input files have a line length
> > +of at most 3070 bytes.
> 
> s/than/that/

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 02:39:04PM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/10/2009 2:09 AM:
> > 
> > OK to push?
> 
> Yes, after fixing nits (see also Andreas' review).

Thanks both of you and Bruno, pushed as below.  I also pushed the
"Multiple languages" test patch.

> > +tree.  Input files should be text files, a line length below 2K should
> > +be safe.
> 
> s/, a/, and a/; s/2K/2000 bytes/

Cheers,
Ralf

    Document awk and config.status line length limitations.
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (Configuration Actions): The input to
    config.status should have reasonable line length.
    (Limitations of Usual Tools): Document IRIX, HP-UX awk input
    line length limit.
    Report by Bruno Haible.

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index b5ff0af..32855a9 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -2153,7 +2153,8 @@ Configuration Actions
 
 The @var{inputs} may be absolute or relative file names.  In the latter
 case they are first looked for in the build tree, and then in the source
-tree.
+tree.  Input files should be text files, and a line length below 2000
+bytes should be safe.
 
 @item commands
 Shell commands output literally into @file{config.status}, and
@@ -16366,6 +16367,9 @@ Limitations of Usual Tools
 per run of non-special characters in a @code{printf} format, but these
 bugs have been fixed on all practical hosts that we know of.
 
+HP-UX 11.00 and IRIX 6.5 Awk require that input files have a line length
+of at most 3070 bytes.
+
 @item @command{basename}
 @c ---------------------
 @prindex @command{basename}