On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Rémi Cardona <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 18/09/2009 15:14, Dan Nicholson a écrit : >> I don't see why the original was a problem > > I don't really know either. I thought the syntax was ok, but running > configure proved otherwise. > >> but can you leave the line >> continuation markers in there? Having variables with newlines in them >> is not fun. > > I don't always understand how bash treats variables but a simple "echo > $REQUIRED_MODULES" after the declaration showed the list as a single > string on a single line, wrapped only by my terminal.
If you do 'echo "$REQUIRED_MODULES"', it would print newlines, though. Unless you want to audit the use of REQUIRED_MODULES everywhere in the script (and through the macros), it's probably a better idea not to have the newlines. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
