--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/prefix-args.c	Mon Aug 13 08:45:50 2007 +0200
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+/* prefix-args.c - echo each argument, prefixed by a string.
+   Jim Blandy <jimb@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> - September 1992
+
+   When using GCC 2 as the linker in the build process, options
+   intended for the linker need to be prefixed with the "-Xlinker"
+   option.  If an option takes an argument, we need to use -Xlinker
+   twice - once for the option and once for its argument.  For
+   example, to run the linker with the options "-Bstatic" "-e"
+   "_start", you'd need to pass the following options to GCC:
+
+   -Xlinker -Bstatic -Xlinker -e -Xlinker _start.
+
+   The Emacs makefile used to use a Bourne Shell `for' loop to prefix
+   each linker option with "-Xlinker", but 1) the for loop was hairier
+   than one might hope because it had to work when there were no
+   arguments to pass to the linker - the shell barfs on a loop like
+   this:
+
+       for arg in ; do echo -Xlinker "$arg"; done
+
+   and 2) the whole compilation command containing this loop seems to
+   exit with a non-zero status and halt the build under Ultrix.
+
+   If I can't write a completely portable program to do this in C,
+   I'm quitting and taking up gardening.  */
+
+/* Synched up with: FSF 19.30. */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+void
+main (int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  char *progname;
+  char *prefix;
+
+  progname = argv[0];
+  argc--, argv++;
+
+  if (argc < 1)
+    {
+      fprintf (stderr, "Usage: %s PREFIX ARGS...\n"
+"Echo each ARG preceded by PREFIX and a space.\n", progname);
+      exit (2);
+    }
+
+  prefix = argv[0];
+  argc--, argv++;
+
+  for (; argc > 0; argc--, argv++)
+    printf ("%s %s%c", prefix, argv[0], (argc > 1) ? ' ' : '\n');
+
+  exit (0);
+}