Re: question about AC_SEARCH_LIBS

2008-10-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Vincent Torri wrote: > > 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="n

Re: [CFT] Shell functionization patch (if you don't know what that means, it's faster Autoconf and leaner configure scripts)

2008-10-26 Thread Tom Browder
That sounds like a good thing to me! Somehow I was able to get autoconf (2.61) to use bash functions in my configure.ac. Was that a lucky thing somehow? Any chance of getting (autoconf < configure.ac > configure) to be able to use a Perl script if a macro finds suitable evidence of a modern Perl