Re: [Groff] Detection of PATH_SEPARATOR in configure

2011-12-01 Thread Keith Marshall
Shame on you, Jeff. You hijacked Anton's thread on upper case handling, to ask this completely unrelated question. Now, when I find a few moments to respond, I have to remember which thread you hijacked, because ThunderBird has buried your original query in a collapsed thread, where I can't readi

Re: [Groff] Detection of PATH_SEPARATOR in configure

2011-11-30 Thread Jeff Conrad
James K. Lowden wrote: It does make you wish for which(1) or "command -v" for Windows, doesn't it? I have which(1), but it doesn't help here ... I think your plan is reasonable. The alternative would be to push on configure.guess and assume the path separator for any form of Windows is

Re: [Groff] Detection of PATH_SEPARATOR in configure

2011-11-28 Thread James K. Lowden
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:14:00 -0800 Jeff Conrad wrote: > And the idiosyncrasies continue ... The current test invocation finds > sh on my system only because I have /bin as a symbolic link to c:/ > Program Files/MKS Toolkit/mksnt. Now the idea isn't that novel, so > I'm sure some others have als

[Groff] Detection of PATH_SEPARATOR in configure

2011-11-24 Thread Jeff Conrad
From time to time, I've built groff using Microsoft Visual C/C++ and the MKS Toolkit. The MKS environment provides most of the necessary Unix-like utilities without much diddling, but not without a few quirks. One quirk makes it impossible for configure to detect the path separator. With the M