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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 01:39:21
Message-Id: 01080310371109.00608@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3 by Dan Armak
1 On Friday 03 August 2001 10:10, you wrote:
2 > On Friday 03 August 2001 09:29, you wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > Portage 1.5.3 has been released, and contains two basic fixes. It should
6 > > no longer be necessary to backslash-escape double-quotes when using
7 > > "try", "emake" or "pmake" (older name for emake). For example, instead
8 > > of typing:
9 > >
10 > > try make CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\"
11 > >
12 > > One can now type:
13 > >
14 > > try make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
15 > >
16 > > The only ebuild that has been updated so far is sys-apps/tmpreaper. All
17 > > others will need to be fixed. Thanks to a message on the MOSIX mailing
18 > > list that demonstrated the subtle differences between $* and "$@", which
19 > > allowed this fix to happen.
20 > >
21 > > Everyone should upgrade to 1.5.3 as soon as possible.
22 > >
23 > > Dan Armak, if you are up to doing a Portage-wide fix, that would be great
24 >
25 > Hey, I've got enough on my hands! :-) Anyway, what do you mean? Fix the
26 > backslashing?
27
28 A search of all ebuilds gives 108 results containing \" including 58
29 containing \"$.
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34 Dan Armak
35 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
36 Matan, Israel