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Re: Bug other/230 - GCC fails to build on Sparc-solaris-2.7 - FIX
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Bug other/230 - GCC fails to build on Sparc-solaris-2.7 - FIX
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 23 May 2000 17:05:32 -0300
- Cc: "Anthony Williams" <anthony_w dot geo at yahoo dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat Company
- References: <7627.959109091@upchuck>
On May 23, 2000, Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:
> In message <003f01bfc3ea$fde24010$5919cac2@derwent.co.uk>you write:
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>> Here is a patch to gcc/libiberty/Makefile.in, whiuh enables libiberty
>> to compile on sparc-solaris-2.7, by preventing the expansion of
>> $PICFLAG causing a shell error in the if statement, due to mismatched
>> quotes.
> Mismatched quotes? I don't see any mismatched quotes in libiberty/Makefile.in
The problem is that "`"foo"`" is not portable. Some shells will parse
this as: "`" foo "`", then complain because of the unmatched backticks.
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