From: lhall@rfk.com (Larry Hall) Subject: Re: AC_PATH_PROG fails if blanks within PATH 30 Mar 1998 01:19:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980325090845.009c1300.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Stefan Hornburg , gnu-win32@cygnus.com At 12:28 PM 3/20/98 -0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > >The program itclsh is located at //D/Program Files/Itcl2.2/bin/itclsh. >Configure doesn't find the program. Moving the binary to a directory >without blanks in the path, configure works fine. The corresponding >snippet of configure.in is: > >dnl Check the presence of [incr Tcl] >dnl -------------------------------- > >AC_PATH_PROG(ITCLSH,itclsh) >if test -z "$ITCLSH"; then > itcl_default=no >else > itcl_default=yes >fi > >Is there a known workaround ? > >Ciao > Stefan >-- >MKDIR pipe on netware with Windows* makes you wonder :-) > If you have not already, cp or "ln -s" bash.exe to sh.exe in b19. sh in b19 is ash by default and doesn't know how to deal with allot of things that good ol' bash does. You loose some performance during the configure but gain some reliability... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".