From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: libf2c FLAGS_TO_PASS [was Re: egcs-1.2 stuff ] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:57:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <15035.924122644@upchuck> X-SW-Source: 1999-04/msg00529.html >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law writes: Jeff> There's a nonzero chance that the problems that were solved by Jeff> the precise quoting used in the libf2c are not issues anymore. I mentioned history just to be clear that it wasn't done through incompetence or cussedness. Jeff> I don't see any reason why libf2c should be using a different Jeff> quoting scheme than everything else. If it is, then we need to Jeff> find the reason why. There's a comment about it even in the context of the bogus patch. It may be ambiguous, but M-x occur easily finds the use to set shell variables (done for maintenance reasons); at the moment I don't see any need to change that. Jeff> If we ever made libf2c's testsuite It doesn't have one AFAIK, and I'm not sure it would make sense separately. Regardless, it isn't necessary to understand dejagnu to solve the problem at hand. Jeff> work work like the rest, then RUNTESTFLAGS would become highly Jeff> relevant. The remaking stuff in libf2c has broken anyway, making maintenance a pain, but I don't think it has to be made worse. I'll send my current diffs for the makefile separately. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Love To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: libf2c FLAGS_TO_PASS [was Re: egcs-1.2 stuff ] Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <15035.924122644@upchuck> X-SW-Source: 1999-04n/msg00533.html Message-ID: <19990430231500.zttKh_M59kHwy8rEsjL5XlmZeaoQh1zFT99nuKLUe_I@z> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law writes: Jeff> There's a nonzero chance that the problems that were solved by Jeff> the precise quoting used in the libf2c are not issues anymore. I mentioned history just to be clear that it wasn't done through incompetence or cussedness. Jeff> I don't see any reason why libf2c should be using a different Jeff> quoting scheme than everything else. If it is, then we need to Jeff> find the reason why. There's a comment about it even in the context of the bogus patch. It may be ambiguous, but M-x occur easily finds the use to set shell variables (done for maintenance reasons); at the moment I don't see any need to change that. Jeff> If we ever made libf2c's testsuite It doesn't have one AFAIK, and I'm not sure it would make sense separately. Regardless, it isn't necessary to understand dejagnu to solve the problem at hand. Jeff> work work like the rest, then RUNTESTFLAGS would become highly Jeff> relevant. The remaking stuff in libf2c has broken anyway, making maintenance a pain, but I don't think it has to be made worse. I'll send my current diffs for the makefile separately.