[master,v2.2.6] using NL2SP in archive_expsym_cmds

[Michael Haubenwallner]

Hi,

when I tried
        archive_expsym_cmds='var=`somecommand | $NL2SP`'
NL2SP did not turn newlines into blanks (on AIX here).
Instead it turned '1' to '4', '2' to '0' and '5' to '0'.
Seems 'tr' does not see '\015\012' but '015012', because there is too
few backslash escapement to allow using NL2SP within [eval].

But defining NL2SP to have more backslashes would not work either, as it
is used in ltmain.m4sh without 'eval' too, for example:
        progfiles=`$ECHO "X$objs$old_deplibs" | $SP2NL | $Xsed -e "$lo2o" | 
$NL2SP`

So I ended up in doing it myself, like:
        archive_expsym_cmds='var=`somecommand | tr "\\015\\012" "\\040\\040"`'

How/where is NL2SP intended to be used?

Also I'm wondering if the "Portland Group C++ compiler" support still
works...

Thoughts?

/haubi/