Bug#725218: sed: FTBFS, missing PATH_MAX on hurd

[Paolo Bonzini]

Package: sed
Version: 4.2.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Usertags: hurd
Hello,
hurd doesn't define PATH_MAX and upstream decided not to set it themself anymore
since 4.2.2. See http://sources.debian.net/src/sed/4.2.2-2/lib/pathmax.h

That's a gnulib change.

Attached patch01 sets PATH_MAX in d/rules.
Alternatively patch02 defines it in pathmax.h above.
Thanks for considering.

PATH_MAX is not really needed, it can be replaced by any constant
because sed anyway does reallocation if the buffer needs to be larger
than PATH_MAX.

Jose, perhaps you can change it to 200 and drop the pathmax module from
bootstrap.conf?

Paolo

[Jose E. Marchesi]

Attached patch01 sets PATH_MAX in d/rules.
Alternatively patch02 defines it in pathmax.h above.
Thanks for considering.

PATH_MAX is not really needed, it can be replaced by any constant
because sed anyway does reallocation if the buffer needs to be larger
than PATH_MAX.

Jose, perhaps you can change it to 200 and drop the pathmax module from
bootstrap.conf?

Done. PATH_MAX is now defined in basicdefs.h in case it is not provided
externally.

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Here is a backport of the fix for the debian package, could you upload
it?

Thanks,
Samuel