build failure of egcs-980214 on sparc (patch)

[Alexandre Oliva]

Manfred Hollstein writes:

> 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:

Yeah, I got the e-mail about that just after I sent my own patch.
Seems like I've got quite a big mail queue at cygnus... :-)

Anyway, I'd say my patch should be applied anyway.  It won't break
anything, and it will avoid errors in the future, just in case some
day someone decides to write `"PICFLAGS=$(PICFLAGS)"' again.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil