-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Büning on 6/7/2006 3:09 PM: > - The code that searches for the best shell (_AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL, > around line 234 in lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4) doesn't use > $ac_executable_extensions, > so for systems which use .exe extensions no shell can be found here. > Please, correct this. If you like I'll write the necessary one or two lines > to patch this. > > Btw, ac_executable_extension seems to be undocumented. If I don't set this > variable, no executables like grep or perl can be found at all. I wonder > whether this is also a problem on Windows or other systems having .exe > files. Would it be possible to document this or any similar variable, > please?
The shells for the various Windows ports recognize executable files without requiring the .exe extension, which is why this issue has not come up in the past. OS/2 is particularly picky about requiring extensions. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEiWrT84KuGfSFAYARAhGIAJkBlYSmI73VvHaIoWuBiuZ8IA7bJACgwCtb WbY5w5vwCa78E2nD325mLHQ= =Sl7z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
