Bug 69354
Summary: | AC_PATH_PROG doesn't work when PATH isn't expanded yet | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Akira TAGOH <tagoh> | ||||
Component: | autoconf | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | jorton, rh-bugzilla | ||||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2002-11-22 14:54:45 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Akira TAGOH
2002-07-22 09:37:51 UTC
Created attachment 66224 [details]
configure.in
this problem seems to not appear with autoconf-2.13 Using ':' as path separator seems to be wrong. autoconf.info states in 'File System Conventions': | Also, because the colon is used as part of a drivespec, these | systems don't use it as path separator. When creating or accessing | paths, use the `PATH_SEPARATOR' output variable instead. When using '${PATH_SEPARATOR}' instead of ':' in your example, it works as expected. Huh? the colon isn't used as part of a drivespace on Linux. I think that description mention an use on DOS. Usually, ./configure scripts are intented for use on general Posix compliant systems and not on GNU/Linux only. Most of these systems have special quirks which must be handled by autoconf correctly. AFAIK, Cygwin tries to provide such a Posix environment, but inherits ':' as special character in pathnames from its underlying OS. This is known autoconf bug which is fixed in autoconf 2.54: "" - AC_PATH_PROG Now colon in the optional path arguments are properly handled. "" Yes, this looks to be ok in autoconf-2.56-1. |