Re: updated win32 macro

[Lars J. Aas]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:18:37PM +0100, Lars J. Aas wrote:
: I agree, but I'd rather have the implementation/optimization details hidden
: in some autoconf-provided variables like $as_true and $as_false - it would
: be less obfuscating.  Then you could set $as_true to ":" and perhaps $as_false
: to "(exit 1)" if "false" for some reason does not work on a system.

Just "(exit 1)" didn't work, but this does:

as_true=":"
as_false="eval (exit 1)"

Don't know what's more optimal of that and fork + exec /bin/false.  Could
probably go the way of fork + eval...

  Lars J
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