On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> I'm a bit confused, as the __attribute__ stuff shouldn't affect the configure
> scripts for gtk/glib.
Perhaps this is the result of one or more of
1) some "improvement" to "make" to cause it to somehow require
more escaping of parentheses than just the quotes we put
there;
2) some "improvement" in "make" to cause it to use $SHELL rather
than a standard shell to run commands (some naif at AT&T did
that, ages ago, so that people could use Korn Shell-isms in
Makefiles - I guess nobody used the C shell at AT&T, because
using $SHELL rather than the Bourne shell breaks Makefiles
that use Bourne shell control sequences if the user running
"make" uses the C shell), coupled with an "improved" shell
that somehow requires more escaping of parentheses than the
quotes;
3) some "improvement" to make a standard shell treat parentheses
in strings in a fashon that requires more escaping of
parentheses, or a user-configured shell option to make it
treat them in that fashion.
