Re: [Patch-gnuradio] Fwd: configure should use CC to check for Python.h

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 07:34:44PM -0400, Szymon Jakubczak wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> No, this didn't work for me. After a bit of reading on the issue I
> found out that autoconf generally does not work well with AC_PROG_XXX
> within a shell if then else. It's in fact considered to be a feature
> of autoconf (as the designers can't imagine why would the package
> conditionally depend on a compiler) that the macro is expanded outside
> of the if/then/else.
> 
> However, after removing AC_PROG_F77 from config/gr_fortran.m4,
> --disable-fortan still does nothing, but at least Python.h succeeds.
> 
> I think it should be noted that I'm using autoconf 2.64 with libtool 2.2.6a.
> 
> --Szymon

Thanks for the info!

Eric