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Re: build failure of egcs-980214 on sparc (patch)
On , 16 February 1998, 10:25:26, oliva@dcc.unicamp.br wrote:
> Manfred Hollstein writes:
>
> > On , 16 February 1998, 02:00:21, oliva@dcc.unicamp.br wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Looks like SunOS [45]'s /bin/sh doesn't like strings like
> >>
> >>
> >> "PICFLAGS=`case "..." ...`"
> >>
> >> It thinks the second quote matches the first one, and the subshell
> >> loses.
> >>
> >> A patch that fixes this problem is attached.
>
> > No, that's not correct. The patch which introduced this PICFLAGS=... stuff
> > wasn't actually completely applied. A hunk for toplevel Makefile.in is
> > missing. This is what I got:
>
> Yeah, I got the e-mail about that just after I sent my own patch.
> Seems like I've got quite a big mail queue at cygnus... :-)
>
> Anyway, I'd say my patch should be applied anyway. It won't break
> anything, and it will avoid errors in the future, just in case some
> day someone decides to write `"PICFLAGS=$(PICFLAGS)"' again.
Of course, you're right.
Manfred