Re: Wrt to Tru64

[Ossama Othman]

Hi Gary,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:06:23AM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> I think there is an underlying problem with the way output_verbose_link_cmds 
> is not quoted prior to being `eval'ed.  By my reckoning, it should be passed 
> through $sed_quote_subst before being fed to eval, otherwise technically 
> variables will also be substituted at the wrong time.

Right, that makes sense.  It's strange that this problem is showing up
now.  I recall testing that code successfully on Tru64 quite some time
ago.

> Additionally, it breaks our naming convention: *_cmds variables should allow 
> multiple lines of shell code to be used if separated by `~'s;  if a variable 
> can hold only a single line of shell code, it should be name *_cmd.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that there is anything
preventing that variable from holding more than one line of code.  It
just so happens that I used semi-colons instead of the tildes.  Should
we switch to tildes instead?

-Ossama
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