parse_time()

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi, I had need of a function to convert some variation of a time (duration) specification into a count of seconds. For your amusement and optional inclusion...(I *think* I've got papers on file for gnulib) It accepts several formats: [DD d] [HH h] [MM m] [SS s] [DD d] [[HH:]MM:]SS [D

Re: use of AC_TRY_EVAL broken

2008-11-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 10/24/2008 3:28 PM: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> a suggestion for a new name: AC_EVAL_IFELSE. > > There's actually two cases to consider, if you want to make it easy to use > for the developer: > - the case of a command t