Bug other/230 - GCC fails to build on Sparc-solaris-2.7 - FIX

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Tue May 23 21:53:00 GMT 2000


  In message < orzophhw1f.fsf@tamanduatei.dcc.unicamp.br >you write:
  > 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/Makefi
  > le.in
  > 
  > The problem is that "`"foo"`" is not portable.  Some shells will parse
  > this as: "`" foo "`", then complain because of the unmatched backticks.
OK.  Didn't we have a different patch to deal with this problem by 
tweaking the mh-blahpic files to avoid the problem quoting?

jeff



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