Marc Aurele La France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9 Jul 2003, Alexander Pohoyda wrote: > > Matthieu Herrb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alexander Pohoyda wrote (in a message from Monday 7) > > > > http://www.alexander-pohoyda.privat.t-online.de/patches/twm.Imakefile.diff > > > > Can you elaborate on why is it useful to switch from single quote > > > quoting to backslashes? > > > It may be not useful as much, but with an old version we end up > > calling a command: > > [...] cc -c [...] -DHAS_MKSTEMP > > '-DSYSTEM_INIT_FILE="'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm'/system.twmrc"' parse.c > > which is not consistent, does not look very nice and requires more > > processing by the shell. > > ... but is still required for portability reasons.
Oh! Good to know. Thanks. May I also ask on which system/shell/compiler/imake would my patch fail? Just for the record. I'm really sorry if I miss some common knowledge here. I'm wondering how this can work then: ./xc/programs/xkbcomp/Imakefile:ROOT_DEFINES = -DDFLT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT=\"$(LIBDIR)/xkb\" ./xc/programs/xdm/Imakefile:RANDOM_DEFINES = -DDEV_RANDOM=\"/dev/urandom\" -- Alexander Pohoyda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
