Re: RFC: Use program_transform_name correctly

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-08T19:31:13Z

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:17:26PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> > Conveniently this is no longer an issue in the src repository (or in
> > gcc). The toplevel configure script now guarantees that
> > $(program_transform_name) will not be empty. So $$t it is.
>
> But doesn't that mean I can just say:
>
> sed '$(program_transform_name)'
>
> since Make substitution doesn't respect single quotes in shell
> commands?

I'm not sure. This is all complicated by the way that things get
escaped if $(program_transform_name) contains a ' or a \. And sed
scripts often do contain backslashes:
--program-transform-name='s,(gdb),\1-6.0,'

(or maybe that needs more backslashes, I always forget)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer