[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.