Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 06:17:40PM CEST: > I encountered the following problem: > an autoconf test that checks whether `test' supports `-nt' passes, > but when make tries to use "test -nt" in Makefile, it fails. > this appeared to suggest that configure and make were using different > shells, and, indeed, I found some code in configure which appears to > re-run it with bash:
This part of the problem has been addressed already. For your original problem, you could try to simply use 'ls -t' instead of 'test -nt', which is presumably more portable. If you happen to use Automake, its macro AM_SANITY_CHECK, see automake/m4/sanity.m4, will check for working 'ls -t' anyway, and abort configure if it seems to not function properly. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
