Hello John, * John Calcote wrote on Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 02:44:03AM CEST: > I'm wondering about best practices for checking for programs like > the javac compiler. For instance, I currently have a line in my > project's configure.ac file that looks like this: > > AC_CHECK_PROGS([JAVAC], ["gcj -C -ftarget=1.4 -fsource=1.4" "guavac > -target 1.4 -source 1.4" "jikes -target 1.4 -source 1.4" "javac > -target 1.4 -source 1.4"]) Why are you doing this? AC_CHECK_PROGS will cut off the arguments when searching for the program anyway, it don't try to run the program. The semantics of AC_CHECK_PROGS are purely done so that one can pass in variables to AC_CHECK_PROGS that are also used likewise elsewhere; but for the tests done by this macro, they are not relevant. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
