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Augmented path checks do not work as advertised
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David Kastrup |
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Augmented path checks do not work as advertised |
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22 Dec 2002 17:24:51 +0100 |
This is autoconf 2.53. The manual states:
Generic Program and File Checks
-------------------------------
These macros are used to find programs not covered by the
"particular" test macros. If you need to check the behavior of a
program as well as find out whether it is present, you have to write
your own test for it (see *note Writing Tests::). By default, these macros
use the environment variable `PATH'. If you need to check for a
program that might not be in the user's `PATH', you can pass a
modified path to use instead, like this:
AC_PATH_PROG([INETD], [inetd], [/usr/libexec/inetd],
[$PATH:/usr/libexec:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:etc])
This does not work, however, since the configure script does some
stupid trickery for the sake of making PATH have some different
separator, and then : is not recognized as a separator any more.
What would be a way portable across a reasonable subset of autoconf
versions to achieve the above?
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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