[sane-devel] Re: Sane installed twice

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:27:36PM +0000, Major A wrote:
> Grrr. It seems that the expansion is normally done by make, not
> sh.

In configure, it's defined like this:

prefix='foo'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'

In the Makefile, the "'" are omitted, so everything is ok. If we would
use an external script, it would be ok, too.

> Your "eval" way of doing things is good, it can even be repeated
> like
> 
>   echo `eval eval eval echo ${libdir}`
> 
> to get deeper levels of expansion.

I've used this approach now. Thanks to everone who sent ideas.

Bye,
  Henning