PATCH: Work around libtool for `$' in filenames

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:44:03AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> [Cc:ing libtool-patches, to make sure libtool maintainers are aware of
>  the problem and don't end up rewriting this patch by mistake]
> 
> On Nov 26, 2002, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> 
> > Libtool couldn't deal with `$' in filenames, which is used in libjava
> > test. This patch seems to work for me.
> 
> Sorry, this one can't go in.  For one, it would break the libtool
> testsuite for disregarding $run, which would break libtool -n.
> 
> This is probably a symptom of places where arguments to libtool should
> be quoted but aren't, or cases in which we expand a command line with
> eval too many times.  Simply quoting `$' may fix this particular
> problem, without fixing the more general problem that should be fixed,
> e.g., other shell meta-characters would remain broken.
> 

PR1343 in libjava testsuite always fails since libtool can't handle

/export/build/gnu/gcc/build-i686-linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libjava/testsuite/../libtool --silent --tag=GCJ --mode=compile /export/build/gnu/gcc/build-i686-linux/gcc/gcj -B/export/build/gnu/gcc/build-i686-linux/gcc/ --encoding=UTF-8 -B/export/build/gnu/gcc/build-i686-linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu//libjava/  -c  -o PR1343\$2\$x1.o /export/build/gnu/gcc/build-i686-linux/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libjava/testsuite/PR1343\$2\$x1.class 


H.J.