Michael Talbot-Wilson: > I'd like to do something like > > AC_PATH_PROG([PGCONFIG],[pg_config]... > > followed by employing the path PGCONFIG in a shell command and > assigning the value returned. If it was found, i.e. if there is a > pg_config on the system. Within configure.ac ... ... > I thought it was possible to execute shell commands in configure.ac > but a few hours searching the manual has got me nowhere. > > Is such a thing possible? How? The "configure.ac" file *is* a (Bourne) shell script, so just insert the shell command in the configure.ac file, and it'll be run at that point. If they're in a conditional, you should use AS_IF and AS_CASE, not if...fi and case...esac; the autoconf documentation describes those. --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
