On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:03:18PM +0100, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > > > SUBDIRS = @SUBDIRS@ > > > > > > > > Then in your `configure.in' you can specify: > > > > > > > > SUBDIRS = "src doc lib po" > > > > AC_SUBST(SUBDIRS) > > > > > > Yuck, this voodoo works only if it is written as > > > > > > SUBDIRS="src doc lib po" (no spaces!) > > > > > > does this qualify as bug for the automake tutorial? :) > > > > Nope. Standard bourne shell syntax. Try ``var = val'' from your > > shell command line if you don't believe me =)O| > > Uhm? > > mvw@nil$ var = val > bash: var: command not found > mvw@nil$ var=val > mvw@nil$ echo $var > val > > So I have to change that line in the automake tutorial, because > spaces or evil here, or? That's right. The assignment to SUBDIRS with spaces around the `=' is fine in a Makefile, but not in a shell script. > What makes understanding and writing hard in these cases is > this twisted context. It is not easy to know who is parsing > what. There are some nice diagrams to help visualise these dependencies in the Goat book. In particular, see: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_280.html#SEC280 > Regards, > Marc Cheers, Gary. -- ___ _ ___ __ _ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __|__ _ _ ___ _| | / / | / /_ _ _ _ __ _| |_ __ _ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (_ / _` | '_|// / |/ /| |/ / _` | || / _` | ' \/ _` | _ \ \___\__,_|_|\_, /|___(_)___/\__,_|\_,_\__, |_||_\__,_|//_/ home page: /___/ /___/ gpg public key: http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk/key.asc
