Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] plpgsql error

   Any shell-scripting gurus on the list?  I thought this would be an easy
   fix, but I'm having some difficulty getting the configure script to
   produce a fully-expanded value for libdir.  Given a shell variable that
   may contain $-references to other variables, the requirement is to
   assign to a new variable an expanded value containing no $-references.
   I tried
	   expanded_libdir="$libdir"
   but that just gets you an exact copy, no recursive expansion.  A few
   other ideas didn't work either; the Bourne shell doesn't seem to want
   to re-expand text it's already expanded.  Suggestions?

Isn't the correct solution to have the Makefile contain a rule that
creates the file from a template (e.g., with sed -e
's/@xxx@/${xxx}/g')?  That way make resolves the variable references
and you needn't worry about it.  You can have the rule depend on
something like Makefile or Makefile.global or wherever the relevant
variables are set so that if local tweaks are made the files get
remade automatically.

Cheers,
Brook