Variable read error? Multiple spaces

2006-04-27 Thread Siddhartha Shivshankar
Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an error? If so, does anyone know a work-around? Th

Re: Variable read error? Multiple spaces

2006-04-27 Thread Siddhartha Shivshankar
Thanks Chris, Eric, quoting the variable worked. Eric Blake writes: >It is an error on your part for not quoting properly. But this >is not cygwin-specific, so I would advise getting a good >tutorial on shell programming and reading it (the web has >plenty of resources, google is your friend)

Building WebKit/GTK+ - Pango

2009-07-31 Thread Siddhartha Shivshankar
http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingGtk Hi. From the above page, I tried to get the packages mentioned in "Dependencies". But the default pango version in cygwin is 1.8. (>=1.12 is needed according to configure) http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/1.12/ I got Pango 1.12.4 from the abo

Re: Building WebKit/GTK+ - Pango

2009-08-01 Thread Siddhartha Shivshankar
Hi Dave. I didn't set a prefix when I configured pango. In 'config.log' I found the line prefix='/usr/local'. In 'configure', the following lines are present. It seems that they set prefix to $ac_default_prefix. ac_default_prefix=/usr/local prefix=NONE test "x$prefix" = xNONE

Re: Building WebKit/GTK+ - Pango

2009-08-02 Thread Siddhartha Shivshankar
Hi Dave. If PREFIX is stored as an environment variable, (configure) script writers and users could check $PREFIX. (Inapplicable defaults or guesses are avoided) Thank you, Siddhartha. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/