build failure of egcs-980214 on sparc (patch)

[Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de]

On , 16 February 1998, 02:00:21, oliva@dcc.unicamp.br wrote:

 > Hi!
 > 
 > Looks like SunOS [45]'s /bin/sh doesn't like strings like
 > 
 > 
 > "PICFLAGS=`case "..." ...`"
 > 
 > It thinks the second quote matches the first one, and the subshell
 > loses.
 > 
 > A patch that fixes this problem is attached.

No, that's not correct. The patch which introduced this PICFLAGS=... stuff
wasn't actually completely applied. A hunk for toplevel Makefile.in is
missing. This is what I got:

On Sun, 15 February 1998, 21:25:39, law@hurl.cygnus.com wrote:

 > 
 >   In message <199802151213.NAA31447@saturn.s-direktnet.de>you write:
 >   > Although the ChangeLog entry is there, the patch for Makefile.in is
 >   > missing in the current CVS sources.
 >   > 
 >   > Sun Feb 15 13:11:15 1998  Manfred Hollstein  <manfred@s-direktnet.de>
 >   > 
 >   > 	* Makefile.in (BASE_FLAGS_TO_PASS): Don't pass PICFLAG and
 >   > 	PICFLAG_FOR_TARGET.
 >   > 	(EXTRA_TARGET_FLAGS): Don't pass PICFLAG_FOR_TARGET.
 > Weird.  Not sure what happened to it.
 > 
 > Please install this change.   (Boy it's nice to be able to say that :-)
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks!
 > jeff

I'll send an e-mail when I'll be finished with this (it's my first change
I'm gonna add myself to CVS ;-)

Manfred