Re: DOS path

[Tim Van Holder]

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 14:09, John Poltorak wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> 
> Yes, I have this line (with -E) in config.site, but config.log shows:-
> 
> 
> PATH: c:\us in
> PATH: c:\emx in
> PATH: c:\usr\loca in
> PATH: c:\os2
> PATH: .

Probably because this is logged before config.site is run.
Again I must point out that the behaviour of ksh's echo could be
considered broken; it requires an option to behave 'normally'.
This will cause _many_ potential breakages, as people may expect
echo NOT to expand anything.  I would strongly recommend using sh
or bash for running configure scripts.

> > > I didn't think autoconf itself used config.site...
> > 
> > I didn't think autoconf itself had a problem; it's a perl script that
> > runs m4, so any issues are most likely a bug in the Perl/M4 ports and/or
> > the libc used (in the case of system() calls).
> > Any special handling would normally only be needed in configure scripts
> > produced by autoconf, not in autoconf itself.  So config.site is the
> > right place to do that.
> 
> What I meant was that I didn't think autoconf derives anything from 
> config.site... If I put PATH=`echo $PATH...` in config.site, it 
> won't make any difference to autoconf. It would be preferable if it did 
> so.

Provided you either used '--prefix foo' (where foo is path under which
there is a share/config.site file), or set the CONFIG_SITE envvar to
point to the site file to use, configure will use it for any package.
In fact, my config.site prepends /dev/env/DJDIR/bin to the path, so that
DJGPP apps are found in a portable location, and that works fine,
including for autoconf.