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

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:26:47PM -0500, Valdis Kletnieks vt edu wrote:
> 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.

And to complete the answer, the sed script is normally run on
"gobject.pc.in" by "configure" to create "gobject.pc"

Havoc