Anyone got irix5? I have questions about your ctype implementation

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Tue May 7 16:56:00 GMT 2002


On May  7, 2002, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:

> On May  7, 2002, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Never mind.  I've just duplicated it with a full bootstrap.  Something
>> is polluting mabi=64/config.cache with an incorrect setting of LD.
>> Either libf2c or libstdc++-v3.  I'm looking into it.

> Ok, any libtool library would do it, due to an ill effect of (some)
> shells.

> My understanding is that, if an exported variable is modified in a
> shell script, the modified value is not supposed to be automatically
> re-exported.  It should be kept private to the script.

> It appears that IRIX's /bin/sh doesn't agree with my understanding, so
> this work around was necessary.  Ideally, libtool shouldn't mess up
> with LD, but I'd rather not touch this at this point.

> This patch sucessfully bootstrapped the gcc 3.1 branch on
> mips-sgi-irix6.5, and lt_cv_path_LD in both multilibs' config.cache
> contained exactly the original value of LD, not the one modified by
> libtool.m4.

> Mark, ok for 3.1?

Err...  So, where's the patch?

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