Hello Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:42:24PM CET: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:49:11PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Dan's approach had this limit only per line, not per variable. > > I do not understand the last sentence. And right you are. > Was the limitation really ``reintroduced''? Nope, it wasn't. I remembered wrongly. Thank you for the correction. So it will actually be a new feature of Autoconf 2.62 that the user can substitute arbitrarily large values, as long as each line of the substituted value is a bit shorter than the line length limit of the shell and the pattern space and input line limits of sed. (To be precise: the respective limit minus one (for `!') and the number of characters in the variable name.) Nice. Cheers, Ralf
