Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, After many trials and failures, here is my final script (see atachement please). I intend to use it like this: 1. In configure.in put something like: AC_WITH_DIR(xxx, "$prefix/xxx", AC_HELP_STRING([ --with-xxx=something], [place binaries in xxx (default to $prefix/xxx)])) 2. In Ma

OT Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Guido Draheim
Before things get messy: for a newbie it might be best to think of every shell command line to expand into setting finally the integer-variable $? representing the final value of the command. Therefore, a line like that written below will expand to $? = ( xxx == TRUE && yyy == TRUE ) and in a s

Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Evrika :-) |> |> Yes, you're right. But I've been for too long a C programmer (and never a |> shell one). I've thought '&&' was for test command. Something like in: |>if ( xxx == TRUE && yyy == TRUE ) {}; |> |> So the C++ equivalent of this bas

Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Evrika :-) Yes, you're right. But I've been for too long a C programmer (and never a shell one). I've thought '&&' was for test command. Something like in: if ( xxx == TRUE && yyy == TRUE ) {}; So the C++ equivalent of this bash line: test xxx="xxx" && xxx="zzz" is if( xxx == "xxx" ) {

Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> I don't argue with this, but what can do a test statement outside an if |> (or other conditional) ? Until now, I thought test is used for it's |> returned value, but here I don't see anybody using that value... ??? Of course, it is used, in a condit

Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
I don't argue with this, but what can do a test statement outside an if (or other conditional) ? Until now, I thought test is used for it's returned value, but here I don't see anybody using that value... TIA, Ionutz Andreas Schwab wrote: > > This is standard Bourne shell syntax. There is n

Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> Hi, |> |> I'm new to autotools an need something like missing facility --*dir. |> |> I've started playing with ac_define_dir.m4 from the autoconf archive: |> http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html |> |> My modified

what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

2002-06-24 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I'm new to autotools an need something like missing facility --*dir. I've started playing with ac_define_dir.m4 from the autoconf archive: http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html My modified version looks to produce what I want, but I fail to understand how