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Re: PATCH: better configure-time handling of program-transform

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: schizo@xxxxxxxxxx (Clint Adams)
Subject: Re: PATCH: better configure-time handling of program-transform
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:16:41 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <19991202171336.A20559@xxxxxxxx> from Clint Adams at "Dec 2, 1999 5:13:36 pm"
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Clint Adams wrote:
>+u_ptn=`make -f - <<EOF
>+all:
>+	@echo ${program_transform_name}
>+EOF
>+`

What's this about?  What does it achieve that

	eval "u_ptn=${program_transform_name}"

doesn't?  Is the extra layer of expansion really necessary anyway?

-zefram

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