Re: [PATCH] libtool: LT_PATH_NM: default to ${ac_tool_prefix}nm

[Peter Rosin]

On 2013-04-28 09:21, Peter Rosin wrote:
> On 2013-04-27 22:38, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Saturday 27 April 2013 13:53:28 Peter Rosin wrote:
>>> On 2013-04-27 07:58, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>> The current code tries to locate a compatible nm tool.  It starts with
>>>> a prefixed nm tool (great!) and includes a plain nm too (that's fine).
>>>> The problem is that the code searches for the prefixed nm before the
>>>> plain nm (normally fine), but doesn't break once it has found a valid
>>>> match.  It does this so that it if it finds an "OK", but "not great",
>>>> tool, it'll keep on searching.
>>>
>>> I agree this sounds like the wrong this to do, but isn't it better to
>>> just break all the way out when a "great" nm is found?
>>
>> for some reason i thought the [n] arg to break wasn't portable.  this should 
>> work though.
>> -mike
> 
> And on re-reading, my IFS changes are not very constructive. I removed
> those. I will push the attached in a couple of days, if there are no
> objections.

Pushed now, and thanks!

Cheers,
Peter