That works so long as you don't have any spaces or characters that the shell will try and interpret in the string. It's cleaner and safer just to put the single quotes around the string. That way you don't have to worry about what characters are in your string, and you can live a happy and fulfilling life. :-) Cheers, Lyle -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jp.guillemin@xxxxxxx Hi Eljay, Mihnea, Thank you for the solution, For information I've found another one : -DMYPATH=\"/usr/local/thepath\" then the shell doesn't parse the " anymore Regards JP
