Re: Lay groundwork for exec. ext. support

[Lars J. Aas]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:34:05PM +0200, Tim Van Holder wrote:
: I'd like to see this included in 2.51 as groundwork for
: a working solution in 2.52.  It should not affect any
: existing scripts (I think).

Using something like

  ac_executable_forms='${base} ${base}.exe ${base}.com' 

  base=perl eval ac_candidates=\"$ac_executable_forms\"
  for ac_candidate in $ac_candidates; do
    ...
  done

is more flexible than

  for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
    ...
  done

I can't think of a platform where it is necessary right now though,
but more flexibility never hurts and it avoids the '' special case
you use.

  Lars J