Re: Forcing complete expansion of a PATH variable

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Joshua Kwan) writes:

|> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:54:07AM +0200, Guido Draheim wrote:
|> > you need to eval/echo like in...
|> > 
|> > http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html
|> > http://ac-archive.sf.net/Miscellaneous/ac_subst_dir.html
|> > >
|> > >AC_ARG_WITH(musicpath,
|> > >        AC_HELP_STRING([--with-musicpath], [Path to install music files
|> > >  to (default: DATADIR/tetriword/music)]),
|> > >          musicpath=$withval,
|> > >          musicpath=${datadir}/${PACKAGE}/music)
|> > >
|> 
|> Now I have added AC_SUBST_DIR(musicpath) after these lines.
|> 
|> But something weird happens now:
|> 
|> ./configure: line 3594: musicpath: command not found

You must use ${musicpath}, not $(musicpath).

Andreas.

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