PATCH: egcs_update problem

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> With the first patch (the one that removes the use of xargs), the
> names of the configure.in files spill across my screen, but there is
> no error message:

The first patch served to check where exactly the problem was, the
second was a fix candidate.

> So I think the second patch is the one that cures the problem.

Yup. I have checked in the patch below which has been tested on
sgi-irix-6.5, sparc-sun-solaris2.6 and i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.7.

Let's hope this does not introduce problems on other platforms.


1999-01-19  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

	* egcs_update: Do not use xargs, but a backquote construct.

Index: egcs_update
===================================================================
RCS file: /egcs/carton/cvsfiles/egcs/contrib/egcs_update,v
retrieving revision 1.11
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -r1.11 -r1.12
53c53
< for i in `find . -name configure.in -o -name '*.y'`
---
> X=`for i in \`find . -name configure.in -o -name '*.y'\`
55,57c55,58
< 	D=`dirname $i`/CVS
< 	[ -f $i -a  -d $D ]  && echo $i  
< done | xargs cvs -q update
---
> 	D=\`dirname $i\`/CVS
> 	[ -f $i -a  -d $D ]  && echo $i
> done`
> cvs -q update $X