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Re: make clean failure


On Mar 16, 2001, "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras@softhome.net> wrote:

> ! 	                "`echo "RANLIB=$${RANLIB}" | sed -e s/.*=$$/XFOO=/`" \

The first " inside ``s matches the first " outside, on some shells.
You must precede such nested quotes with \.

Note that you should probably enclose the sed command in quotes too.
I don't want to think what could happen if someone happens to have a
directory called `s', with some file matching the glob expression that
follows :-)

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