Jim Jagielski wrote: > > I need to check what it's being done for, but the reason for the > exports and the evals is because you need to "protect" the use of > the vars until you actually need to use them. Recall that autconf > simply cuts and pastes, so it will see what they are defined as > at that time, and use those values. The evals' are there to > ensure that happens. The exports were to make sure that any sub-configures > picked up the changes, something we most likely need in APR anyway > (eg: MM?). I don't think the above will work, at least it won't in > the original way we were using it. >
Ahh. With the new setup, it *will* in fact work. This is good. I was never too keen with the evals, but it was the only viable solution at that time. +1 on the change. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "Casanova will have many weapons; To beat him you will have to have more than forks and flatulence."
