On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:26:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:19:10 PST, TomF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > What do the "@"s mean in following lines: > > > > prefix=@prefix@ > > That's so a 'sed' script can do something like: > > s%@prefix@%/usr/local% > > and leave 'prefix=/usr/local'. Without the '@', you'd end up with a line > that said "/usr/local=/usr/local" which isn't very helpful.
And to complete the answer, the sed script is normally run on "gobject.pc.in" by "configure" to create "gobject.pc" Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
