Re: FYI: branch-1-5: SCO/bugfix patch 7 of 10: Improve SCO platform support

[Kean Johnston]

> OK, thanks.  Yes, that's better.  I had thought to avoid the extra
> quoting `\$SCOABSPATH' so that it would be invisible to the user from
> the libtool output, but the way that is now is ok with me.  However,
> it's a good idea not to carry this into CVS HEAD for another reason:
> Sometime after 2.0 I may want to reform the quoting stuff a bit, both
> to allow file names with spaces and possibly for efficiency.  Above
> may not work any more then.
Right, ans I'm sure we will craft an entirely different mechanism
for supporting absolute pathnames.

> A couple of open questions remain:
> - was the quoting for allow_undefined_flag different on purpose
>   (i.e., because of some bug in ltmain)?
Almost certainly not. Most likely just habbit. I'll check to make
sure though.

> - the archive_cmds and archive_expsyms_cmds do not make use of
>   allow_undefined_flag at all (they used to do so before),
>   that makes its setting ineffective.
>   Could you be bothered to post a followup patch to fix this
>   (including ChangeLog entry, if possible)?
Absolutely. I think it was an oversight, but I will test and
make sure and ocrrect it.

> Here's what I installed.  In a followup patch, I'll remove the
Most excelent, thank you Ralf.

Kean