EXEEXT

2002-12-21 Thread John Poltorak
Is there anything like a guide to how EXEEXT should be incorporated into a build system? I'm currenty able to build RSYNC on OS/2 using the standard autoconf, configure, make process, but need so manual intervention to convert the final binary file into a .EXE. I think I could get the whole th

autoconf-x.y.z and environment variables: feature or misfeature?

2002-12-21 Thread Nelson H. F. Beebe
When a configure script checks for the location of a needed program, e.g., via a configure.in entry like this, AC_CHECK_PROGS(GZIP, gzip) any prior definition of that name (GZIP) in the environment overrides this test. Mostly, this is a good thing, so that env CC=/usr/local/test