Re: [master,v2.2.6] using NL2SP in archive_expsym_cmds

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Michael,

* Michael Haubenwallner wrote on Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:31:18AM CET:
> 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].

Try
          archive_expsym_cmds='var=`somecommand | \$NL2SP`'

as a workaround for now.

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

because it uses $NL2SP in its commands.

Yes, it looks like some breakage happened here.  Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
Ralf