On Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:37:14 -0800, Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David A. Wheeler wrote: > > E.g. when using AC_CHECK_PROG to search for "sbcl", the generated makefile would say: > > SBCL = sbcl > > That's easy to do without changing Autoconf. Put this in configure.ac: > > AC_CHECK_PROG([SBCL], [sbcl], [sbcl], [false]) Fair point. I've reflexively been using AC_PATH_PROG, but in my case AC_CHECK_PROG is the better choice. I think the autoconf documentation should encourage its users to *NOT* embed full pathnames if they can avoid them, e.g., they should be encouraged to use AC_CHECK_PROG instead of AC_PATH_PROG. Then spaces-in-directories would bite users (builders) less often. It'd still be good to have a solution for spaces-in-directories. --- David A. Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
