On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Craig Emery wrote:
> Yup. Looks like you're using the wrong quotes in your compile command.
> 
> You've got "single quotation marks" (i.e. ' ) but you need apostrophies
> (i.e. ` )
> On my keyboard, the apostrophy is up by the non-keypad 1 key.
> 
> Apostrophies (I've heard them called ticks too; that's only one sylable,
> much easier to "talk") mean: "run this command and put it's output **here**"
> 

For a fact, single quotation marks are apostrophies ('), what you're talking about are 
backquotes (`)

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