Re: FYI: Splitting and testing AC_SHELL_DIRNAME

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Akim!

> Pavel> That's because of "AM_"
> 
> Arg.  This needs to be adjusted.

I tried this but I'm affraid writing portable AWK scripts is beyond my
compenence. It's trivial in gawk though:

--- autoconf.sh Mon Oct 16 14:25:56 2000
+++ autoconf.sh Wed Oct 25 12:27:01 2000
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
 
   # You can add your own prefixes to pattern if you want to check for
   # them too.
-  pattern="_?A[CHM]_|m4_"
+  pattern="(_|\<)A[CHM]_|m4_"
 
   if test "x$outfile" != x-; then
     chmod +x $outfile

The problem is that we want to match the beginning of the word or the
underscore, but we don't want to match anything else before the macro.

Anyone with better AWK background is welcome to try.

Of course, we can use two patterns if everything else fails.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin