Hi,
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:27:36PM +0000, Major A wrote:
> Grrr. It seems that the expansion is normally done by make, not
> sh.
In configure, it's defined like this:
prefix='foo'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
In the Makefile, the "'" are omitted, so everything is ok. If we would
use an external script, it would be ok, too.
> Your "eval" way of doing things is good, it can even be repeated
> like
>
> echo `eval eval eval echo ${libdir}`
>
> to get deeper levels of expansion.
I've used this approach now. Thanks to everone who sent ideas.
Bye,
Henning
