> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:21:27 -0700 (MST) > From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> However, I suspect that in the great majority of uses of > AC_CHECK_PROGS() and its companions, the programmer intended to find > an executable program. An executable program at run-time, yes. But this is quite a different thing from the situation at configure-time. Quite often I want to configure a program for an environment other than the one I'm running on. Perhaps AC_CHECK_PROGS should use an environment variable named "TEX_PROG" rather than one named "TEX", when checking for tex. That would tend to lessen the confusion. Unfortunately it would be an incompatible change.
