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Re: [ITP] qt3-3.3.4


On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Peter Ekberg wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:38:31PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > > unpack() {
> > >   winbase=`cygpath -m ${srcdir}`
> >
> > Ahem,
> >
> > winbase="`cygpath -m "${srcdir}"`"
>
> Ahem,
>
> quote from the autoconf manual:
>
> ------8<------
> [snip]
> Contrary to a persistent urban legend, the Bourne shell does not
> systematically split variables and back-quoted expressions, in
> particular on the right-hand side of assignments and in the argument of
> `case'.
> ------8<------

Fair enough.  The other quotes *are* needed, however.
	Igor
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