On 02/25/2013 06:07 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 02/25/2013 02:54 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote: >> Thank you guys for your answers! >> >> "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
> > The difference is between "EOF" and EOF > > If you use the latter one, you need to escape the special signs or it > will threat the as, lets say, variables and so. > Thanks Armin! I get it now. So if EOF is quoted, the backslash brakes mozconfig. I'm posting from a freshly installed Thunderbird-17.0.2. tar -xfv failed. It should be tar -xvf Thanos -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
