Thank you guys for your answers! Ken Moffat wrote: > > ISTR I added the backslash, with a comment explaining it, because > when I tried pasting what was in the book at that time it fubar'd. > From memory, the comment said that the backslash was for pasting > (because the mozconfig is now likely to be pasted, we no longer keep > a version in the BLFS repo).
Close, but not correct - the explanation is in the paragraph above the instructions to create the mozconfig : "The commented line for --with-libxul-sdk has an escaped dollar sign - if you have chosed to paste the entries into a mozconfig file in your editor, you do not need the escape, it is only necessary when invoking a subshell in a HERE document." ---------------------------------------------- I don't get it. If I do cat > mozconfig << "EOF" #ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=\$(pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul) EOF cat mozconfig #ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=\$(pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul) cat > mozconfig << "EOF" #ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=$(pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul) EOF cat mozconfig #ac_add_options --with-libxul-sdk=$(pkg-config --variable=sdkdir libxul) Thanos -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page