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Re: _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH bug (Was: Re: 4-gary-AC_PROG_GREP.patch)


From: Gary V . Vaughan
Subject: Re: _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH bug (Was: Re: 4-gary-AC_PROG_GREP.patch)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:06:01 +0100

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Hi Albert,

On 20 Apr 2004, at 21:08, Albert Chin wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:23:40PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Applied the relevant part of Alberts original patch.

What about the rest of the patch?

It hasn't arrived in the mailman archives yet, but a few minutes after I
posted the above, I posted this:

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
| My impressions is that your change will cause the test to exit
| as soon as a working tool is found, although the intent was to
| try many names of the tool and return the better one.  The
| original `break 2' looks correct to me: it exits the tests for
| the current name of the tool and continues with other names.

Agreed.  I've applied the typo fix part of the patch however.

The encapsulation within that macro set isn't ideal, but the break 2 is
an optimisation.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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