Re: Why does 'AC_MSG_CHECKING' output extra junk.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> If I have this in my configure.ac
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> AC_MSG_CHECKING([if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker])
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> then run the configure script, I see:
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>
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> checking if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker... checking for a sed that does 
> not truncate output... /opt/csw/bin/gsed
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>
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> I've not asked it to check for sed, so why is it putting that in the end?

AC_MSG_CHECKING is normally followed by AC_MSG_RESULT (or equivalent),
which completes the line begun by AC_MSG_CHECKING.

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