On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:28:13PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
: Hello!
:
: > Yes. I wouldn't bother doing that. Just tell them to get a working
: > shell. You have to draw the line somewhere.
:
: That's correct. We cannot support command.com anyway :-)
...darn - I was just about to start a `comfigure' branch... ;)
: How about this:
:
: ac_output=`command || echo "===ERROR==="`
: case $ac_output in
: *===ERROR===)
: AC_MSG_ERROR([command failed]) ;;
: *) ;;
: esac
How about something like this:
ac_output=`command`
command >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
The second re-run ought to be conditional on this problem to optimize the
configure script, so if someone knows how to write a condition test that won't
affect $?, raise your voice (keyboard)...
Lars J
