[cups.bugs] Re: [LOW] STR #1853: autoconf 2.60 compatibility patch

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Jul 20 15:25:05 PDT 2006


On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Michael Sweet stated:
> 
> [STR Pending]
> 
> Hmm, OK, well we can't take this patch as-is, since it uses the
> Bash-specific elif stuff.  I'll work on making it POSIX sh conformant...

It's in ksh, and in POSIX: I've used it in scripts that run on IRIX,
Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Tru64, and even AIX. See a few pages down from
here:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_09_04>.

> That said, the autoconf 2.60 documentation specifically states that
> datarootdir is supposed to be automatically substituted when there are no
> references to it in the output files...  Sounds like they've broken things
> (again)...

Hm, you're right, that seems to be an autoconf bug :/

I'll look into it. It may be because Makedefs.in is included or
something (although I'd be hard-pressed to say how autoconf could tell).





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