Re: AIX grep limitation: coreutils build failure

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Note autotest/general.m4, not autoconf/general.m4:

Ah, sorry, I missed that.  But I am less worried about that, since
autotest can make more assumptions about its targets.

> Let's hope no non-ancient sed has issues with \n.

I think that's a reasonable hope.  The script does work with the Unix
Version 7 sed -- I just checked.  There are length limits, but I think
it unlikely that we'll run into them, since people don't like long
DEFS anyway.