Re: Quoting problems (or: why doesn't my new configure script work?)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:10:08 +0200,
ness <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> My new idl4 interface and features seem to work. Now I wanted to change
> the configure.ac to find idl4, set IDL4FLAGS and test whether idl4 is
> new enough. One of my changes requires that one gives the compiler call
> to idl4, as ONE parameter. My try looks like that:
> (CFLAGS, CC and IDL4 are legal)
> 
> IDL4FLAGS="$IDL4FLAGS -i V4_GNU -p generic -T -C \"$CC $CFLAGS\""
> echo -n "checking for idl4 -l -i V4_GNU... "
> $IDL4 $IDL4FLAGS -l -c test.idl

You need eval.

$ export abc='1  "2  3"  4'
$ eval "echo $abc"
1 2  3 4

Yeah, took me a while, too ;)

Thanks,
Marcus