From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: AC_PATH_PROG fails if blanks within PATH
30 Mar 1998 01:19:41 -0800 :
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To:	Stefan Hornburg <sth AT hacon DOT de>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 12:28 PM 3/20/98 -0100, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
>
>The program itclsh is located at //D/Program Files/Itcl2.2/bin/itclsh.
>Configure doesn't find the program. Moving the binary to a directory
>without blanks in the path, configure works fine. The corresponding
>snippet of configure.in is:
>
>dnl Check the presence of [incr Tcl]
>dnl --------------------------------
>
>AC_PATH_PROG(ITCLSH,itclsh)
>if test -z "$ITCLSH"; then
>	itcl_default=no
>else
>	itcl_default=yes
>fi
>
>Is there a known workaround ?
>
>Ciao
>		Stefan
>-- 
>MKDIR pipe on netware with Windows* makes you wonder :-)
>

If you have not already, cp or "ln -s" bash.exe to sh.exe in b19.  sh in b19
is ash by default and doesn't know how to deal with allot of things that 
good ol' bash does.  You loose some performance during the configure but 
gain some reliability...


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