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Re: AC_PROG_EGREP behaviour
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: AC_PROG_EGREP behaviour |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:16:39 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> The CVS version calls _AC_PROG_GREP, which means that on system without
> any working egrep, configuration halts with an error. Is that OK?
That makes more sense to me, yes.
> OTOH, if AC_PROG_AWK finds no awk, the variable AWK is not set.
> Shouldn't we halt with an error too?
> Or shouldn't we set AWK=awk anyway, similarily to AC_PROG_YACC?
The situations are not quite the same, since grep-like programs are
sometimes executed for their status. However, I'd feel more comfortable
if AC_PROG_AWK etc. all halted if their program wasn't available,
at least by default.