Re: libtool 1.5.10 fails nopic test on Solaris

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Menzel wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:39:11PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> > I guess, the shell's `read' does not understand `-r'.  Can you confirm
> > this?  Does your shell documentation match this?
> 
> Here is the relevant section of the man page for the Solaris 9 sh:
*snip*
> 
> So: yes, no '-r' option for the read command of /bin/sh.

Thanks.  I skimmed the online Solaris docs of `read' and they are
different on this issue (but I think I forgot to check which shell
they refered to).

> > Please try the patch
> > in attachment #1 (against branch-1-5; branch-2-0 should be similar, but
> > against config/ltmain.m4sh).  I don't think we need -r here.
> 
> Good, this seems to fix the problem:

Great.

> > | = trying: \\ quoting
> > | = failed:  gcc -c "-DVAR=       est\" foo.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
> > |  gcc -c "-DVAR= est\" foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > This is the "$echo computed for the wrong shell" bug for which I have
> > yet to contemplate a bug.
> 
> Or - even better - a fix?

Yeah, I don't always read what I type.  :)


> > Try again with
> >   CONFIG_SHELL=$FOO $FOO configure [...]
> 
> OK, I tried (for branch-1-5)
> 
> $ CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh /bin/sh ./configure
> $ make
> $ make check TESTS='quote.test'
> 
> which gave me
> 
> PASS: quote.test

Alright!  At least no new bugs.  :-)

Cheers,
Ralf