Re: [HACKERS] Problems with src/pl/tcl/mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in in 6.5

I didn't understand this the first time you sent it either.

Send me a patch to review, please.


> For Digital UNIX 4.0D, shared libraries are created by:
>     $ ld -shared -expect_unresolved "*" -o foo.so [objects]
> 
> This presents a problem for mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in. In tclConfig.sh:
>     TCL_SHLIB_LD='ld -shared -expect_unresolved "*"'
> 
> In mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in:
>     cat @TCL_CONFIG_SH@ |
>     egrep '^TCL_|^TK_' |
>     while read inp
>     do
>         eval eval echo $inp
>     done >Makefile.tcldefs
> 
> Because of this, we wind up with the following in Makefile.tcldefs to
> created shared libraries on Digital UNIX because of the eval:
>     TCL_SHLIB_LD=ld -shared -expect_unresolved *
> 
> The "*" needs to be quoted to avoid shell expansion. How about the
> following:
>     cat @TCL_CONFIG_SH@ |
>     egrep '^TCL_|^TK_' |
>     sed -e "s/^\([^=]*\)='\(.*\)'$/\1=\2/"
> 
> -- 
> albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
> 
> 


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