Re: sample gobject.pc.in file - What do the "@"s mean?



On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:19:10 PST, TomF <TomF sjpc org>  said:

> What do the "@"s mean in following lines:
> 
> prefix= prefix@

That's so a 'sed' script can do something like:

s% prefix@%/usr/local%

and leave 'prefix=/usr/local'.  Without the '@', you'd end up with a line
that said "/usr/local=/usr/local" which isn't very helpful.

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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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