From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200301092210.h09MA1523166@brother.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: m4 port: return program name as 'm4' not '/some/path/m4.exe'
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:10:01 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <1042101053.4734.8.camel@leeloo> from "Tim Van Holder" at Jan 09, 2003 09:30:53 AM
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According to Tim Van Holder:
> 'test -x'.  Because of that, autoconf was changed to use executable
> extensions instead; this has (currently) zero overhead and breakage
> on Unixy systems (as the set of extensions needs to come from
> environment/config.site at the moment), while also easy to use for a
> djgpp port (ie adding a variable to our config.site).

Perhaps I'm missing something, but that would break a script called
"do_this" (without extension) using the "#!/path/to/executable"
feature, wouldn't it?


Right,

						MartinS