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Re: Processing of convenience variables for scripts ...
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:32:24AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >The loop works, but add-symbol-file seems to be called without the
> >>convenience variables being expanded.
> >>
> >>Have it got that right?
> >>
> >>If so, what would be the first step to get them expanded?
> >
> >
> >add-symbol-file takes constants, not expressions - so variables are not
> >expanded. This should probably change but it's not clear how, given
> >the parser...
>
> A quick/dirty hack would be:
>
> eval .....
>
> similar to the SH equivalent. I suspect an eval will be needed anyway.
Honestly, I'd rather define the CLI grammar I've been talking about
than add any more quick hacks. That's a good 6.0 thing to do, clean up
our CLI a little...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer