Hi I while ago I posted to the libtool list [1,2] regarding a problem I was having with a autotools based project and the condor workflow management system [3]. With the help of Ralf and the Condor developers a workaround, and more importantly a solution, was found. When compiling code for use with condor the compiler needs to be prefaced with a script called condor_compile which alters the behaviour of certain things, and this script wasn't behaving as the autotools expected, i.e. in trying to find which linker should be used: $ condor_compile gcc -print-prog-name=ld /opt/condor/lib/ld ERROR: Internal ld was not invoked! ERROR: Executable may not be linked properly for Condor! ERROR: For users of Condor on Linux, we highly recommend ERROR: using the default compiler that came with the ERROR: distribution. Usually placing /usr/bin first in ERROR: your path will remedy this error. ERROR: To learn more about this error, visit this web page: ERROR: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/faq.html ERROR: and read the FAQ entry about this problem for your ERROR: revision of Condor. $ echo $? 1 $ this has now been fixed in condor and will be present in the next release, i.e. the output is now $ /path/to/fixed/condor_compile gcc -print-prog-name=ld /opt/condor/lib/ld $ echo $? 0 $ Currently I am working round this problem but when the fixed version is released I no longer want to apply the workaround, therefore I would like to add a check to configure that determines if the workaround is needed. At the moment I am using the version to do this, i.e. I have been told by the developers that this will be fixed in condor-7.4.2, for the stable series, and condor-7.5.1, for the development series. It seems to me that a better test would be check the output of "condor_compile gcc -print-prog-path=ld" and act accordingly. I've therefore been looking for a macro that gets the output from a given command, but can't find anything. Does such a macro exist? If not how could I achieve this? Cheers Adam [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-05/msg00023.html [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00088.html [3] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
