The moral of the story is that this works: CONFIGURE="../configure --prefix=/usr/local ${EXTRAINC} --enable-maintainer-mode --with-version-suffix --with-included-gettext"
echo ${CONFIGURE} "--with-frontend=${FRONTEND}" cd ${BUILDDIR} ${CONFIGURE} "--with-frontend=${FRONTEND}" But putting the '--with-frontend=...' in the string does not. -- Angus