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Date:      Wed, 9 Jul 2014 09:57:39 -0400
From:      Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, decvt100@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Issues using new_xorg pkg repository
Message-ID:  <CAKFCL4V_VBG2RQTrzagmzv_jYS-vSwOsVAwTW80kdmpzAeAKQA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1X4s45-0002BB-0n@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
References:  <24244376.QCTQUyq6Lv@hobbita.kernelmap.com> <E1X4s45-0002BB-0n@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>

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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
wrote:

> > As you can see, the macro ${ABI} has been deleted from the config file.
> > ......
> > << EOF, this macro is deleted (I don't know why, maybe it depends on
> shell you=20
> > are using).
>
> Aha, yes, thats it exactly! I am using /bin/sh - and that will
> try and expand the 4{ABI} itself I guess. Though surely it
> shouldnt when using a here file ?
>

It expands $ unless you quote the end string (cat <<'EOF' or cat <<\EOF).

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