Re: AS_EXECUTABLE_P again

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:20:03AM CET:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:42:24PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > 2) The autoconf manual says you cannot use `test ! -d' with `if'.
> > 
> > Where does it say that?  I couldn't find it.
> 
> under the description of bultin `test',
> line 11085 of doc/autoconf.texi, currently.

I think this:

| You may use @samp{!} with @command{test}, but not with @command{if}:
| @samp{test ! -r foo || exit 1}.

means that you may use
  if test ! ...
but not
  if ! test ...
portably.

Regards,
Ralf