[Gllug] configure.in question

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Sat Nov 11 22:42:29 UTC 2006


salsaman writes:

>**why in hell is shell script white-space sensitive ? I've never quite 
>understood when it matters and when it doesn't.

Because of the way the shell tokenizes the command line and performs
its various expansions on it before the command is executed. Thus it's
treating "=" as an argument to a command "IS_DARWIN", which naturally
it can't find. The EXPANSION section of the bash man page lists the
different expansion types and the order in which they happen.

Tet
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