Hi,
I'm new to autotools, I want to generate 'foobar.h' from 'configure'.
I created 'src/foobar.h.in' with following content:
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#define PATH_PREFIX"@prefix@"
#define PATH_DATADIR"@datadir@"
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And put 'src/foobar.h' in AC_CONFIG_FILES() in 'configure.ac'.
After I run 'au
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 04:37 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
> >>> What version of ksh did you test on?
> >> My testing was with ksh93:
> >> Version M 1993-12-28 o+
> >>
> >> So David Korn introduced a regression sometime since ksh88.
> >
> > Actually it would be post Version M
On 08/03/2010 04:37 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
>>> What version of ksh did you test on?
>>
>> My testing was with ksh93:
>>
>> Version M 1993-12-28 o+
>>
>> So David Korn introduced a regression sometime since ksh88.
>
> Actually it would be post Version M-12/28/93e
> You sniped out the part that said th
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 03:42 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
> >> ksh is the only shell that requires a space between the ) and {, even
> >> though the ) is a metacharacter and should not need trailing space (even
> >> Solaris /bin/sh got that right).
> >
> > Hmm, on my UnixWar
On 08/03/2010 03:42 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
>> ksh is the only shell that requires a space between the ) and {, even
>> though the ) is a metacharacter and should not need trailing space (even
>> Solaris /bin/sh got that right).
>
> Hmm, on my UnixWare machine
>
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
>
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Matěj Týč wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 21:48 -0700, Sam Silla wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to create an array of values to use in configure.ac and am
> > unsure what the best way to accomplish this is. I was wondering if
> Autoconf
> > comes with native
[trimming CC]
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs]
[snip]
> And meanwhile, I found a ksh93 parsing bug (don't know where to report
> that):
>
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> ksh: syntax error at line 1: `}' unexpected
> $ ksh -c 'a() { echo hi;
[trimming the cc a bit]
On 08/03/2010 03:21 PM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> But it is _also_ a bug in zsh; adding zsh-workers accordingly.
>>
>> $ zsh -cvx 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
>> +zsh:1> f=' val' e=''
>> +zsh:1> echo ' val'
>> val
>>
>> Oops - zsh only passed one argument to echo, with a le
[adding autoconf to document some shell bugs]
On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Interesting shell unportability:
>
> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
> val
> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
> val
>
> ksh93, dash, zsh all do it like ksh. Is that a bug in bash?
Yes; addin
