Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I have a little wrapper script for configure that I invoke
| $ ./configure-14x devel xforms qt
| to configure the devel dir ready to build the xforms and qt frontends.
>
| It used to end:
>
| CONFIGURE="../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix
| --with-included-gettext --with-frontend=${FRONTEND}"
>
| echo ${CONFIGURE}
| cd ${BUILDDIR}
| ${CONFIGURE}
>
| But now we can build multiple frontends in the same build directory, that
| CONFIGURE definition needs "'" quotes around the $FRONTEND variable:
>
| CONFIGURE="../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix
| --with-included-gettext --with-frontend='${FRONTEND}'"
What about using " instead of '?
in the shell this works:
var=\"hello\"
foo="../tull --with=$var"
echo $foo
../tull --with="hello"
is that what you need?
you might need to use eval
eval ${configure}
| Unfortunately, this means that the final
| ${CONFIGURE}
| no longer works and I have to replace it with an explicit
>
| ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix
| --with-included-gettext --with-frontend='${FRONTEND}'
>
| Is there an elegant solution or am I stuck with having to replicate stuff?
I am sure there is...
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Lgb
