Re: Bug in AC_CHECK_PROGS ?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Philipp,

* Philipp Thomas wrote on Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:20:31PM CEST:
> Environment:
>          openSUSE 11.4
>          autoconf 2.68
>          automake 1.11.1
> 
> The part below in configure.ac of gcal 3.6 is failing

Please describe and show how it is failing, also by copy-n-pasting
the error(s); i.e., what exactly fails, how configured?

> and I don't see where the
> error could be. Even running 'autoreconf -fi' and thus regenerating
> aclocal.m4 und configure won't change anything. 
> 
> AC_CHECK_PROGS is set to 
> 
> ${SHELL} /abuild/pth/gcal/gcal-3.6/build-aux/missing --run makeinfo

This statement does not make sense to me.

> If I substitute ac_cv_prog_MAKEINFO with makeinfo in the call to set
> makeinfo_version the code works as expected.

Cheers,
Ralf