Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> sagun wrote:
>
>> {snip]
>>
>> "/usr/bin/autoconf" \
>> "/usr/bin/autoheader" \
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr)
>> autoconf: invalid number of arguments.
>> Try `autoconf --help' for more information.
>>
>
> The \ tells make to combine the two lines into one when executing, as
> if there was no line break there, so you have specified runnning the
> command:
> "/usr/bin/autoconf" "/usr/bin/autoheader" ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> You want ; before the \ so they are run as separate commands, not all
> run together as one:
> "/usr/bin/autoconf" ; \
> "/usr/bin/autoheader" ; \
> ./configure --prefix=/usr)
>
>
Thank you!
sagun
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