Re: MinGW issue

[Albert Chin]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 09:35:45PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
> >regardless, this code fragment only needs to work under Cygwin and MinGW 
> >so some other means needs to be found to insert a line before the first 
> >line, but it doesn't need to be very portable.
> 
> Guys, why not just use a HERE or an echo?  Instead of this statement
> 
> $run eval "${SED} -e '1iEXPORTS'"' < "$export_symbols" > 
> "$output_objdir/$output.def"'
> 
> Just change it to these two statements using >> instead of > for the 
> second one.
> 
> $run eval "${ECHO} EXPORTS "'> "$output_objdir/$output.def"'
> $run eval "${SED} -n -e 'p'"' < "$export_symbols" >> 
> "$output_objdir/$output.def"'
> 
> That should work, right, if the -n option to sed is universal?  (there's 
> one other place where you have to do the same thing).

The original code just inserts "EXPORTS" at the first line. So, why
not just:
  $run ${ECHO} EXPORTS > "$output_objdir/$output.def"
  $run cat "$export_symbols" >> "$output_objdir/$output.def"

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