Re: misleading output from AC_PROG_AWK

2008-06-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:08:46PM CEST: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/19/2008 11:42 AM: >> | checking for gawk... (user-provided) awk >> >> One drawback is that this may be wrong, too, for example when AWK >> is passed from one configure script to the next (maybe

Re: misleading output from AC_PROG_AWK

2008-06-20 Thread Eric Blake
According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/19/2008 11:42 AM: checking for gawk... (cached) awk In this case, awk is not gawk, and configure is not actually searching for gawk, so this AC_PROG_AWK output is misleading. What are the alternatives? - output a line for each name we check, or even each dire