On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk <wblas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> On 02/05/10 01:29, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk
>> <wblas...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>> Any reason why there is a $datadir variable used?
>>> There is no explanation to what it should be set to.
>>> If there is not objections, I'll change it to
>>> /usr/share, or should it be $XORG_PREFIX/share?
>>
>> By single quoting the $datadir, it will follow whatever setting
>> datadir takes. Sort of like the default mandir is '${datadir}/man'.
>> It's handled this way because of the unknown settings in $XORG_CONFIG.
>> It will work no matter if I have --datadir=/foo/bar in $XORG_CONFIG.
>> You can probably change it and it wouldn't affect anyone, but that's
>> the reason.
>>
>> --
>> Dan
> Thanks for the explanation. I didn't reaslise you could pass in
> variables literaly.It just means that make will resolve them instead of your shell. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
