[vlc-devel] Re: Building VLC from CVS

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 16 December 2002 21:37, Stephane wrote:
>
> Did look further into this problem. When I increase the number of lines 
from
> 48 to 976 (the number of substitutions, so only one subs file results), 
the
> config.status file ends correctly.
> If the number is 48, the resulting command is
> "
>  sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-1.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-2.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-3.sed |
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-4.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-5.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-6.sed |
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-7.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-8.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-9.sed |
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-10.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-11.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-12.sed 
|
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-13.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-14.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-15.sed 
|
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-16.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-17.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-18.sed 
|
> sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-19.sed | sed -f
> ./confstat1556-17647/subs-20.sed | sed -f ./confstat1556-17647/subs-21.sed
> "
> This results in a lot of sed commands executed parallel. Was this meant to
> happen?
> 

This is really great!

Even if we don't yet have a proper fix for this problem, you at least found 
the problem and a quick&dirty way to solve it :)
Thanks so much for taking the time to investigate this!

I think I'll try a thing or 2 tomorrow to see if we can work around the 
problem by modifying our configure.ac.in or Makefile.am files. But In the 
end I guess we'll have to ask the Msys maintainer to modify the default 
value for ac_max_sed_lines in acgeneral.m4 (or maybe fix sed if it is the 
culprit).

Thanks again for your efforts,

--
Gildas

(PS: it might also be interesting to look at the content of the temp files 
above to see how they have been splitted. I'll try to do that tomorrow as 
well)
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