Re: remove length limitation for substituted vars

[Ralf Wildenhues]

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