Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - many vendor shells complain about 'test -z' without further argument: A POSIX-compliant test won't, and returns zero. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:16:53PM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/24/2008 12:39 AM: > >> AC_CHECK_PROGS(PURIFY,purify purify2002) > >> > >> if test -z $PURIFY; then > > > > This however does need quoting: if $PURIFY can ever be empty, then the > > shell

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/24/2008 12:39 AM: >> AC_CHECK_PROGS(PURIFY,purify purify2002) >> >> if test -z $PURIFY; then > > This however does need quoting: if $PURIFY can ever be empty, then the > shell will complain about a missing argume

Re: autconf, configure & purify...

2008-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to Ben Pfaff on 10/23/2008 10:06 PM: >>> AC_ARG_ENABLE([purify], >>> [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-purify], [build with Purify [default=no]]), >> >> The Autoconf manual explicitly recommends underquoting >> AS_HELP_STRING (though not its arguments)