* Michael Grünewald wrote on Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:51:23PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >The standard Autoconf way to write this would be to use AC_CHECK_PROG or > >AC_PATH_PROG rather than open-coding it; > > I found description for these macros in the info manual for > Autoconf, but I could not figure out how to use them in my > situation. It seems to me that these macros check for the > availablity of some program while I need to choose between several > plausbile alternatives, given that they do not all have the same > capabilities. > > For me, the problem is that `id -u -n' and `id -g -n' do not work on > the Solaris installations I used: I had to use `/usr/xpg4/bin/id' or > `command -p id' instead. Ah, yes. Look at AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK (Autoconf >= 2.62) and the example in the manual, that should be sufficient for your needs. > Note: the `reply to all' in my mailer did not add your name in the > recipients list. Is this a broken behaviour of my mailer or did you > set some headers to require this? My mailer sets Mail-Followup-To: without my email address in it if it sees that any mailing lists I'm subscribed to are in To: or Cc:. So yes, if your mailer honors that, that works as intended. Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
