"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> Use eval:
> $ eval v2=$v1
> $ echo $v2
> DF_/usr/lib/eiffel-gtk
Looks good. Thanks for the clue.
> but if it gets too complicated, you might have to change to Perl
If configure depended on Perl, you couldn't build Postgres at all
without having a working Perl installation... somehow I doubt that
would go over well...
regards, tom lane