-----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 ebb9@xxxxxxx -----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 Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
