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Re: PATCH: egcs_update problem
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: PATCH: egcs_update problem
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:25:14 +0100 (MET)
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com, Mark Mitchell <mark at markmitchell dot com>
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>> * egcs_update: Do not use xargs, but a backquote construct.
> I'd recommend xargs. If a system is failing, that system's xargs is
> badly broken.
Ouch. In that case, how about reverting my patch and using something like
if BROKEN_XARGS then
new_snippet;
else
old_snippet;
endif
so that on can simply set an environment variable BROKEN_XARGS on broken
systems? (This allows for having a single script for various platforms.)
Gerald
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