[SOLVED] korn shell and quoted arguments

[Darren2]

I was attempting to write a korn shell script that would prompt a user with various questions and build the arguments for a 'make' command. I ran into a problem, however. The quoted arguments are being interpreted as if they had no quotes.

Currently in my script I have the following source at the end:

echo parms=${parms}
make -f sample.mk ${parms}

I run the program and the output looks like this:

parms=all C_FLAGS="-DDEV -DDEBUG"
make: Fatal error: Unkown option `-G'

If I type the following at the command line...

make -f sample.mk all C_FLAGS="-DDEV -DDEBUG"

...it works fine. If I remove the quotes, I get the same error as the script. So I'm 99% sure that the quotes are being lost/ignored.

Well, I hope I've described the problem clearly. Any ideas how to overcome this little hurdle?

Thanks in advance,
Darren

[lomcevak]

Just a guess, but add a 'eval' in front of the 'make' commad.

eval make -f sample.mk ${parms}

[Kloschüssel]

Another guess would be that

echo parms=${parms}

just does not what you expect from it.

Why would make complain about "Unknown option`-G'" if there is no -G option?

[Darren2]

Just a guess, but add a 'eval' in front of the 'make' commad.

eval make -f sample.mk ${parms}

That worked. Thank you much. Where's the kudos button?

Darren