Re: libtool 1.5.10 fails nopic test on Solaris

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Before I apply this:  Do we support file names with backslashes in them?
> (This does not apply to other cmdline options).

It is possible for pathnames containing backslashes to be returned by 
MinGW tools and substitution strings containing backslashes need to be 
supportable via autoconf, but other than dealing with these 
peculiarities, I think that files containing backslashes should be 
banned.

Bob

> Regards,
> Ralf
>
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:19:19PM CET:
> > 2004-12-18  Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * ltmain.in (func_extract_archives): Not all shells grok
> >         `read -r' (unnecessary in this case).
> >         Reported by Ralf Menzel <address@hidden>.
> >
> > Index: ltmain.in
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/Attic/ltmain.in,v
> > retrieving revision 1.334.2.43
> > diff -u -r1.334.2.43 ltmain.in
> > --- ltmain.in   11 Dec 2004 14:40:23 -0000      1.334.2.43
> > +++ ltmain.in   18 Dec 2004 17:58:33 -0000
> > @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
> >        $show "cp $f_ex_an_ar_oldlib $f_ex_an_ar_dir/$f_ex_an_ar_lib"
> >        $run eval "cp \$f_ex_an_ar_oldlib \$f_ex_an_ar_dir/\$f_ex_an_ar_lib"
> >        $AR t "$f_ex_an_ar_oldlib" | sort | uniq -c \
> > -       | $EGREP -v '^[         ]*1[    ]' | while read -r count name
> > +       | $EGREP -v '^[         ]*1[    ]' | while read count name
> >        do
> >         i=1
> >         while test "$i" -le "$count"

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