On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:16:22AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> -REQUIRED_MODULES="randrproto >= 1.2.99.3 " \ > >> - "renderproto >= 0.11 " \ > >> - "damageproto >= 1.1 " \ > > > > I don't see why the original was a problem, but can you leave the line > > continuation markers in there? Having variables with newlines in them > > is not fun. > > Adjacent strings concatenate in C, but every shell I'm aware of treats > them as separate words, so that would set REQUIRED_MODULES to the first > quoted string, use the second quoted string as the command to run, and > the rest of the quoted strings as arguments to that command.
sigh. i just tested again and yes, you're right. the error was hidden between the general configure noise that I didn't spot it and configure didn't fail because of it. sorry about that. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
