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

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-05-11T22:04:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
>    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.

Yes, that is what we were saying.

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