"S. Sevki Dincer" <jfcga...@gmail.com> writes: > i want to start building a project with ./configure --prefix=... $(myflags) > where myflags is an executable text file on my path. myflags has the > following in it: > printf 'CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" ' > printf 'LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O2"' > now, when i do that ./configure complains for not recognizing > -fomit-frame-pointer option, and actually word splitting of bash ruins > what i wanna do. i want the word splitting of a command substitution > "to be careful about the quotes in the resulting expansion". is that > possible?
Use eval. eval ./configure --prefix=... $(myflags) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
