Re: libf2c FLAGS_TO_PASS [was Re: egcs-1.2 stuff ]

[Dave Love <d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@upchuck.cygnus.com> writes:

 Jeff> There's a nonzero chance that the problems that were solved by
 Jeff> the precise quoting used in the libf2c are not issues anymore.

I mentioned history just to be clear that it wasn't done through
incompetence or cussedness.

 Jeff> I don't see any reason why libf2c should be using a different
 Jeff> quoting scheme than everything else.  If it is, then we need to
 Jeff> find the reason why.  

There's a comment about it even in the context of the bogus patch.  It
may be ambiguous, but M-x occur easily finds the use to set shell
variables (done for maintenance reasons); at the moment I don't see
any need to change that.

 Jeff> If we ever made libf2c's testsuite 

It doesn't have one AFAIK, and I'm not sure it would make sense
separately.  Regardless, it isn't necessary to understand dejagnu to
solve the problem at hand.

 Jeff> work work like the rest, then RUNTESTFLAGS would become highly
 Jeff> relevant.

The remaking stuff in libf2c has broken anyway, making maintenance a
pain, but I don't think it has to be made worse.

I'll send my current diffs for the makefile separately.