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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:05:02 -0600
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: proposed change to autoconf macro 
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problem:  when 'autoconf' is used, if it needs to determine the value
for 'INSTALL', the test used in the produced 'configure' file looks for
a *nix style path beginning at the root, '/'. If the path doesn't start
at root, it prepends '../' to the path. this causes a error on 'make
install'


proposed solution: change the test to include '[A-z]:/'.   (thanks,
Eli). The source for the macro is in 'acgeneral.m4', but autoconf uses a
frozen file, autoconf.m4f, which is produced by running 
>m4 -F autoconf.m4f autoconf.m4.  

additionally, 'autoconf.m4' refers to 'acoldnames.m4', which apparently
was shortened to 'acoldname.m4' in the distribution, acnf212b.zip




<----------------------------------   autoconf.diff
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diff -c3 share/autoconf/acgeneral.m4 share/oldacf/acgeneral.m4
*** share/autoconf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:27:50 1998
--- share/oldacf/acgeneral.m4	Wed Oct 21 06:48:40 1998
***************
*** 2118,2124 ****
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*|[A-z]:/*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
--- 2118,2124 ----
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
Only in share/autoconf: acgeneral.m4~
diff -c3 share/autoconf/autoconf.m4 share/oldacf/autoconf.m4
*** share/autoconf/autoconf.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:48:22 1998
--- share/oldacf/autoconf.m4	Wed Oct 21 09:48:56 1998
***************
*** 22,28 ****
  dnl
  include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
  builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
! builtin(include, acoldname.m4)dnl
  dnl Do not sinclude acsite.m4 here, because it may not be installed
  dnl yet when Autoconf is frozen.
  dnl Do not sinclude ./aclocal.m4 here, to prevent it from being
frozen.
--- 22,28 ----
  dnl
  include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
  builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
! builtin(include, acoldnames.m4)dnl
  dnl Do not sinclude acsite.m4 here, because it may not be installed
  dnl yet when Autoconf is frozen.
  dnl Do not sinclude ./aclocal.m4 here, to prevent it from being
frozen.
diff -c3 share/autoconf/autoconf.m4f share/oldacf/autoconf.m4f
*** share/autoconf/autoconf.m4f	Wed Oct 21 09:27:58 1998
--- share/oldacf/autoconf.m4f	Wed Oct 21 06:49:02 1998
***************
*** 3928,3934 ****
    LIBS="$LIBS -lx"
  fi
  []AC_EPI()
! T15,4046
  AC_OUTPUT_FILES# Protect against being on the right side of a sed
subst in config.status.
  changequote(, )dnl
  sed 's/%@/@@/; s/@%/@@/; s/%g\$/@g/; /@g\$/s/[\\\\&%]/\\\\&/g;
--- 3928,3934 ----
    LIBS="$LIBS -lx"
  fi
  []AC_EPI()
! T15,4037
  AC_OUTPUT_FILES# Protect against being on the right side of a sed
subst in config.status.
  changequote(, )dnl
  sed 's/%@/@@/; s/@%/@@/; s/%g\$/@g/; /@g\$/s/[\\\\&%]/\\\\&/g;
***************
*** 4023,4029 ****
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*|[A-z]:/*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
--- 4023,4029 ----
  ifdef([AC_PROVIDE_AC_PROG_INSTALL],
  [  case "$ac_given_INSTALL" in
  changequote(, )dnl
!   [/$]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
  changequote([, ])dnl
    *) INSTALL="$ac_dots$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;
    esac
diff -c3 share/autoconf/autoconf.m4~ share/oldacf/autoconf.m4~
*** share/autoconf/autoconf.m4~	Wed Oct 21 06:49:56 1998
--- share/oldacf/autoconf.m4~	Wed Oct 21 09:44:42 1998
***************
*** 22,28 ****
  dnl
  include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
  builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
! builtin(include, acoldname.m4)dnl
  dnl Do not sinclude acsite.m4 here, because it may not be installed
  dnl yet when Autoconf is frozen.
  dnl Do not sinclude ./aclocal.m4 here, to prevent it from being
frozen.
--- 22,28 ----
  dnl
  include(acgeneral.m4)dnl
  builtin(include, acspecific.m4)dnl
! builtin(include, acoldnames.m4)dnl
  dnl Do not sinclude acsite.m4 here, because it may not be installed
  dnl yet when Autoconf is frozen.
  dnl Do not sinclude ./aclocal.m4 here, to prevent it from being
frozen.