Re: LYNX-DEV NSL-FORK/CLONE

[T.E.Dickey]

> > ok - I thought it was quoting (to work around something with the shell
> 
> Literal quoting around "make install-help" to set it off from the
> rest of the sentence.  Whether double quotes or single quotes doesn't
> matter (though it might for some shells).  I think
> 
>         Use "make install-help" to install the help files.
>             ^                 ^                    ^     ^
        @echo "Use \"make install-help\" to install the help files."

would work (the only portability problem I know of in this area is if I'd
not defined SHELL=/bin/sh in the makefile -- some make programs would
otherwise interpret things with csh (or whatever) syntax, producing weird
error messages for the echo commands.

> would be nicer than what's there, but that's just my personal preference.
> 
> > expansion of make flags).  If you want to offset the message, perhaps
> > a blank line after as well...
> 
> Yes, that would be nice, i.e., an ``echo ""'' above and below.
> 
> __Henry
> 


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