[mgp-users 01220] Re: 1.10a installation issues

[Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>]

From: Tim Maher <tim@consultix-inc.com>
Subject: [mgp-users 01219] 1.10a installation issues
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:20:06 -0700
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 > ** Installation problems with Magicpoint 1-10a **
 > 
 > 1) The configure script gives me several "unary operator
 > expected" messages due to double-quotes being missing around
 > references to empty variables used with the test -z operator.
 > This is a common mistake, that the development team may not
 > have noticed, because of course the errors will only appear
 > on systems that have the associated variables unset.
 > 
 > (If anybody's interested in some guidelines on Shell Quoting,
 > which is a pretty complex subject, check out my article on 
 > the subject: http://teachmeunix.com/quoting1_2.txt.)
 > 
 > 2) Although configure --help indicates that many aspects of the
 > installation can be changed, this does not appear to be true,
 > nor is it possible to affect the Makefile via env-vars in the
 > usual way (with one exception).

Thanks for the notice. I will fix them.
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp