Re: MinGW issue

[Charles Wilson]

Albert Chin wrote:

> > Because I wasn't sure if we were allowed to use cat (just bare 'cat', 
> > not even ${CAT}).  I *know* we can use ${ECHO} and ${SED}.
>
>
> ltmain already uses bare 'cat'.

Then I guess there's no problem; subject to the following question, I 
figure your version is better (given two equally effective changes, the 
simpler one is always better).

Why did you eliminate the quoting, and the eval?

You had:

$run ${ECHO} EXPORTS > "$output_objdir/$output.def"
$run cat "$export_symbols" >> "$output_objdir/$output.def"

But if I were to use cat, I would've said

$run eval "${ECHO} EXPORTS "'> "$output_objdir/$output.def"'
$run eval 'cat < "$export_symbols" >> "$output_objdir/$output.def"'

just on the principle of minimum change (surely there was a reason the 
original version:

$run eval "${SED} -e '1iEXPORTS'"' < "$export_symbols" > 
"$output_objdir/$output.def"'

had such funky quoting, and used $run eval, right?)

I suspect Albert's answer will be simple and obvious, and I'm having a 
brain fart...

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Chuck