Re: Empty else part in AS_IF

[Eric Blake]

On 10/10/2013 04:41 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Another solution is to ensure that AM_CONDITIONAL is always defined
>> (where its definition is a no-op if using an old automake that did not
>> already define it):
> 
>> m4_define_default([AM_CONDITIONAL])
>> AS_IF([test x"$var" != xfalse],
>>       [$test=1],
>>       [AM_CONDITIONAL([TEST], [false])])
> 
> This would reintroduce the same problem, though, wouldn't it?
> AM_CONDITIONAL would expand to nothing, and then the else branch of AS_IF
> would be empty.  Or does this give AS_IF enough information to figure that
> out because it avoids using the lower-level m4_* function?

If that's the case, then write AM_CONDITIONAL so that it always produces
a shell statement:

m4_define_default([AM_CONDITIONAL], [:])

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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