[autoconf-conversion] New tools and multilibs fight with one another

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:16:28PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil at jaj.com> writes:
> 
> > It looks like some single-quotes are not being interpreted properly.
> 
> I think they are being interpreted properly--at least, they are being
> interpreted in accord with the sh language definition.

Yes, of course.  I didn't mean to imply the shell was broken.


> This rather awful trick could be used for the argument processing in
> config-ml.in.
> 
> I can't think of anything else that would work.  Basically you need to
> expand the parameter and then treat it as normal shell input for quote
> processing.  As far as I know, the shell language doesn't support that
> directly.

Sigh.  This is more than what I've bargained for.

In the short term, I still think either of the fixes I proposed should
be applied.  Actually, both of them.  We don't need to be sloppy about
accepting arguments in our own trees.

Even then, something still isn't being done correctly, but that's probably
unique to libstdc++-v3, and not config-ml.in's problem.


Phil

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