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

2002-12-22 Thread Paul Eggert
> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:21:27 -0700 (MST) > From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, I suspect that in the great majority of uses of > AC_CHECK_PROGS() and its companions, the programmer intended to find > an executable program. An executable program at run-time, yes. But th

Re: mdate-sh

2002-12-22 Thread Andreas Buening
Paul Eggert wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 00:06:26 +0100 > > From: Andreas Buening <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a question concerning config/mdate-sh. It contains the following code: -- # Get the extended ls output of the file or directory. # On HPUX /bin/sh, "set" interp

HP-UX 10.20 breakage in 2.57

2002-12-22 Thread Albert Chin
2.57 introduced the following incompatible change: * lib/autoconf/c.m4 (AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY(C), _AC_PROG_PREPROC_WORKS_IFELSE): Use if __STDC__ is defined, to support freestanding compilers. This should fix the bug reported by Momchil Velkov in