This is so that we can pass the command argument with spaces. Note that this is not really portable, $@ is a bashism, and traditional shell does not have a suitable replacement. Lubomir Rintel --- kBuild-0.1.3/kBuild/env.sh.escape 2008-08-17 21:13:20.000000000 +0200 +++ kBuild-0.1.3/kBuild/env.sh 2008-08-17 21:13:23.000000000 +0200 @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ MY_RC=$? else test -z "${QUIET_OPT}" && echo "$0: info: Executing command: $*" 1>&${ERR_REDIR} - $* + "$@" MY_RC=$? test -z "${QUIET_OPT}" -a "$MY_RC" -ne 0 && echo "$0: info: rc=$MY_RC: $*" 1>&${ERR_REDIR} fi