Re: Libjava craziness

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 18, 2001, Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> wrote:

> Mark, could you please let me know whether it helps.  Libtoolers, ok
> to install?

Actually, this one should do better and be somewhat faster:

Index: ltconfig
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/egcs/ltconfig,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -p -r1.19 ltconfig
--- ltconfig 2001/04/20 09:26:56 1.19
+++ ltconfig 2001/05/18 05:37:41
@@ -783,11 +783,15 @@ if test "${lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len+set}" =
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
 else
   i=0
-  testring="ABCDEF"
-  while test `$CONFIG_SHELL $0 --fallback-echo "X$testring" >/dev/null 2>&1` 
== `echo "X$testring" >/dev/null 2>&1` &&
+  testring="ABCD"
+  # If test is not a shell built-in, we'll probably end up computing a
+  # maximum length that is only half of the actual maximum length, but
+  # we can't tell.
+  while test X`$CONFIG_SHELL $0 --fallback-echo "X$testring" 2>/dev/null` \
+             = "XX$testring"` &&
           new_result=`expr "X$testring" : ".*" 2>&1` &&
           lt_cv_sys_max_cmd_len=$new_result &&
-          test $i != 32 # 1 MB should be enough
+          test $i != 18 # 1 MB should be enough
   do
     i=`expr $i + 1`
     testring=$testring$testring

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