Re: [Groff] Re: MSVC Port

[Werner LEMBERG]

Forwarding a reply from Jeff...

> > Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> gave the following
> > answer on the bug-autoconf list (you may check the replies at
> > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf):
> > 
> >   Another fix is to set ac_executable_extensions to ".exe" (or
> >   ".exe .cmd .bat" if you like) in your config.site.  That
> >   variable was added for this exact purpose - not all Unixy shells
> >   on DOS/Windows return true for 'test -x foo' if only foo.exe
> >   exists.
> > 
> > This is an undocumented feature of autoconf:
> 
> Documenting it would help ...  However, even with this set, the test
> fails.  configure finds cc (MKS front end to MSVC), but tries to run
> b.out.


    Werner