Re: libtool/config.status issue on IRIX

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Joe Orton wrote:

> > _ACEOF
> > cat foo.out
> >
> > Note that the update adds an extra backslash in front of all the inner
> > double-quotes.
>
> OK, I made those changes to libtool.m4 as below, and can confirm that
> the configure script produced works correctly on IRIX 6.2 (and a
> GNU/Linux system).  Thanks a lot!

If another libtool maintainer would care to apply this important
patch, I would certainly appreciate it.  My CVS commit access is not
re-enabled yet.

Bob

> Index: m4/libtool.m4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/m4/libtool.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.23
> diff -u -r1.23 libtool.m4
> --- m4/libtool.m4     28 Nov 2003 13:41:22 -0000      1.23
> +++ m4/libtool.m4     2 Jan 2004 00:18:20 -0000
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  # libtool.m4 - Configure libtool for the host system. -*-Autoconf-*-
> -## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003
> +## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004
>  ## Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  ## Originally by Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden>, 1996
>  ##
> @@ -4425,10 +4425,10 @@
>      old_postinstall_cmds | old_postuninstall_cmds | \
>      sys_lib_search_path_spec | sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec)
>        # Double-quote double-evaled strings.
> -      eval "lt_\$var=\\\\\"\\\`\\\$echo \"X\\\$\$var\" | \\\$Xsed -e 
> \"\\\$double_quote_subst\" -e \"\\\$sed_quote_subst\" -e 
> \"\\\$delay_variable_subst\"\\\`\\\\\""
> +      eval "lt_\$var=\\\\\\"\\\`\\\$echo \\"X\\\$\$var\\" | \\\$Xsed -e 
> \\"\\\$double_quote_subst\\" -e \\"\\\$sed_quote_subst\\" -e 
> \\"\\\$delay_variable_subst\\"\\\`\\\\\\""
>        ;;
>      *)
> -      eval "lt_\$var=\\\\\"\\\`\\\$echo \"X\\\$\$var\" | \\\$Xsed -e 
> \"\\\$sed_quote_subst\"\\\`\\\\\""
> +      eval "lt_\$var=\\\\\\"\\\`\\\$echo \\"X\\\$\$var\\" | \\\$Xsed -e 
> \\"\\\$sed_quote_subst\\"\\\`\\\\\\""
>        ;;
>      esac
>    done
>

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