Re: Libtool and echo (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8)

2001-10-06 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 06:22:43PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > > From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:46:36 +0100 > > > > libtool needs to store lots of script snippets in shell variables to > > be passed to eval later. In order for this to work, it must be >

Re: Libtool and echo (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8)

2001-10-05 Thread Paul Eggert
> From: "Gary V. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:46:36 +0100 > > libtool needs to store lots of script snippets in shell variables to > be passed to eval later. In order for this to work, it must be > possible to backslash escape shell meta characters, so that eval's > be

Re: Libtool and echo (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8)

2001-10-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 11:07:29AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04 Oct 2001 17:38:43 > >> +0200 > >> > >> some of our parts would be extremely happy to have as good a shell > >> as possi

Re: Libtool and echo (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8)

2001-10-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 04 Oct 2001 17:38:43 >> +0200 >> >> some of our parts would be extremely happy to have as good a shell >> as possible. For instance it would help Libtool which needs a good >> `echo'. Paul>