Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:59:49 +0200
From: Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DJGPP port of GNU Autoconf 2.13 update 2
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"Mark E." wrote:

> BTW, if you have any suggestions on how to making the official
> Autoconf handle both DOS and Unix path separators, send then to
> autoconf AT gnu DOT org.

Your patch to acgeneral.m4 looks something like this:

ac_test_flag="-f"
if ! test -z "$COMSPEC$ComSpec"; then
  ac_test_flag="-x"
  IFS="${PATH_SEPARATOR-;}"
fi

On cygwin $COMSPEC is also defined. With this patch,
IFS is set to ; on cygwin causing the search for
programs to fail there. If : is going to
be the default for bash 2.03 (Thread Bash 2.03 beta update)
would it perhaps be better to leave IFS to : as follows?

ac_test_flag="-f"
if ! test -z "$COMSPEC$ComSpec"; then
  ac_test_flag="-x"
fi

The test -x works also for cygwin

Teun

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