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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:15:35 -0600
From: bowman <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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To: "djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: autoconf/acgeneral.m4 problem
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I am attempting to build a clean configure using autoconf. I've resolved
everything except the install entries in the makefiles. they all rely on
INSTALL. the following snippet is written to configure from the
acgeneral.m4 file:

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
])dnl

prior to reaching this code, ac_given_INSTALL is set to
c:/djgpp/bin/ginstall by prior tests. However, after the test, ac_dots
is prepended, yeilding  ../c:/djgpp/bin/ginstall, which fails during the
"make install" operation. 

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any work-around? I'm out of
my depth with m4 and bash shell scripts and don't want to blunder
around.