I'm passing along the following bug report that was reported against the Debian package for Autoconf 2.61. I've looked over the Autoconf git repository and I don't see any changes in this area since 2.61.
This really is a generic cosmetic issue with AC_CHECK_PROGS: if the first binary tested for is not the most generic name for the program, then assigning to the overriding variable will seem to find that first binary instead of the generic program. Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want @AWK@ to be equal to 'awk' so it will not introduce an > unnecessary dependency on whichever of gawk, mawk, or nawk it > finds first in the buildd chroot. Therefore I am forced to > pass AWK=awk to configure, which then provides the following > output. > > checking for gawk... awk > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > checking for gawk... (cached) awk > > In this case, awk is not gawk, and configure is not actually > searching for gawk, so this AC_PROG_AWK output is misleading. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
