Re: AC_CHECK_LIB acts very strangely in Darwin

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan, Aarno, Thomas,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:31:24PM CEST:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:05:28PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > >                 if  [[ "$DONE" = 0 ]]
> ...
> > >                 if  [ "$DONE" = 0 ]
> > 
> > See what's happening?
> 
> Ralf, I guess Aarno knows what he is doing.  He quotes properly and thus
> the expansion is correct shell command.

D'oh.  I'm sorry for posting such a stupid answer in a hurry.

* Thomas Dickey wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:12:48PM CEST:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >Short story: [ ] are quotation characters within configure.ac files.
> >That's one reason why many m4 macros use "test" instead for readability.
> 
> The main reason is that some older systems do not have "[" as an alias
> for "test".

Yes, and thank you for reminding me of this.

Cheers,
Ralf