Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Andreas, * Andreas Schwab wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:19:09PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - many vendor shells complain about 'test -z' without further argument: > > A POSIX-compliant test won't, and returns zero. Yeah, all those shells aren't compliant. S

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Boggis, Antony wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:28:28PM CEST: > > >Remains the question: does anything in your Makefile.am files use > >$(PURIFY)? > > No. > > There is a "if PURIFY" though... Well, Automake conditionals only work if you declare them using AM_CONDITIONAL in configure.ac; see <

Re: use of AC_TRY_EVAL broken

2008-10-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:28:06PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > a suggestion for a new name: AC_EVAL_IFELSE. > > There's actually two cases to consider, if you want to make it easy to use > for the developer: > - the case of a command that should be executed

question about AC_SEARCH_LIBS

2008-10-25 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, according to the documentation, AC_SEARCH_LIBS searches a function name in a set of libraries and add to LIBS the library that contains the function (if any). If I have that code: AC_SEARCH_LIBS([fnmatch], [fnmatch iberty evil], [res="yes"], [res="no"]) the value is stored in ac_cv_se