Re: cygwin: need to use the correct 'head.exe'

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> >> This patch adds $HEAD to the list of variables stored in the libtool
> >> script, and during configury hunts for 'head.exe' in preference to
> >> 'head' (or HEAD), and invokes the program thru that variable rather
> >> than
> >> directly.  It should have no impact on other platforms -- beyond
> >> adding
> >> another unused variable to the libtool script (like OBJDUMP and
> >> DLLTOOL
> >> are now), since nothing but win32_libid() calls 'head' anyway.
>
> How about using "sed 10q" instead?

I also believe it is worth investigating to see if using 'sed' is
acceptable.  It seems that the targets which execute win32_libid() are
highly constrained so some simple testing will verify if sed is a
reasonable substitute for those targets.

Adding more tests to the configure script makes it larger and slower,
which likely nullifies any benefits from using head.

Bob
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