Re: bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/23/2014 03:07 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > +if test $? -ge 126; then > + ($2 --version +fi Thanks for the quick testing. I've pushed that now. thanks, Pádraig.

Re: bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-23 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Pádraig, thank you for looking into this quirk. Your patch looks reasonable and works for me. For one minor suggestion, see below. Pádraig Brady wrote on Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 02:06:13PM +0100: > On 10/18/2014 05:58 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> On OpenBSD, the usual way to install the autotool

Re: bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-23 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 10/18/2014 05:58 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > this is maybe not a full-grown bug, more like a quirk, but is is > sure bound to cause confusion, so i'd like to hear what you think... > > I'm the maintainer of the OpenBSD port of groff (GNU troff), > and Bertrand (see Cc:) is currently mig

bootstrap check_exists() causes misleading diagnostics on OpenBSD

2014-10-18 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, this is maybe not a full-grown bug, more like a quirk, but is is sure bound to cause confusion, so i'd like to hear what you think... I'm the maintainer of the OpenBSD port of groff (GNU troff), and Bertrand (see Cc:) is currently migrating the groff build system to automake and gnulib. He u