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.

Yes, that is what we were saying.

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