On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:39:07AM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote: > The standardized Bourne shell (a.k.a /bin.sh) provides no '==' operator > for the test utility [1]. bash should refuse it, but unfortunately it > doesn't. > > Thus there is some editing of configure.ac needed in order to make ion > autoconfigurable on anything but Linux.
Ooops, I tried to follow the "portable shell coding" described in the autoconf manual, but this is not mentioned. How should string equality be tested on your system? > but I get an unusually large diff for the resulting configure script, It's best to provide a patch against configure.ac. This will be a lot smaller! > Also, I think there is a typo in system-ac.mk, where one should read > @LDFLAGS@ instead of @CFLAGS@ for the LDFLAGS assignment. No, this is deliberate because gcc/libtool is used as the linker (I think), and some useful flags end up in CFLAGS (include directories, for example). The separation of CFLAGS/LDFLAGS/LIBS/INCLUDES/etc. is generally quite broken, with, for example library search directories ending up in LIBS rather than LDFLAGS, include search dirs in CFLAGS, etc. Sadly the brokenness is in the default autoconf macros. > I'm not joining the patches because the changes are small and trivial > and I have other local changes in the way. Any chance of sharing useful ones? Cheers, Tom
