Re: shell script question

2003-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
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-versio

Re: shell script question

2003-08-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > What about using " instead of '? > you might need to use eval > I am sure there is... Bingo! Thanks, Lars. Thanks, John. CONFIGURE="../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix --with-included-gettext --with-frontend=\"${FRONTEND}\"" echo ${CONFIGURE}

Re: shell script question

2003-08-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
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-versio

Re: shell script question

2003-08-14 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:47:01PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > CONFIGURE="../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix > --with-included-gettext --with-frontend='${FRONTEND}'" CONFIGURE="../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix --with-included-gettext --with

Re: shell script question

2003-08-10 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:09:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > >> eval ${CONFIGURE} > > The eval is unnecessary No it's not. Without the eval I get: $ ./configure-14x devel xforms qt configuring devel FRONTEND is xforms qt build directory is devel/build2 ../configure --en

Re: shell script question

2003-08-07 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:09:29PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > eval ${CONFIGURE} The eval is unnecessary john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.