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Re: behaviour of PATH argument in AC_PATH_PROG


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: behaviour of PATH argument in AC_PATH_PROG
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:25:15 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:58:34PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
  
>  That can't be right, because configure sets IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR before
>  entering the for loop. There was a bug in this area in autoconf 2.5x up
>  to 2.53, but it has been fixed since.

that seems to be correct (sometime after 2.53).
 
>  Are you sure this is really autoconf 2.57? Does the generated configure
>  script contain the
> 
> as_dummy="$PATH:/usr/libexec:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:etc"

the script should also begin with

#! /bin/sh
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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