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. > I have no more arguments, sorry. Please forget the issue if you don't > agree with my reasoning. Done. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
