Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've not been able to find documentation for the expansion of ${parameter+set} under the Bourne shell. (nor bash, nor ksh)

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've not been able to find documentation for the expansion of

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:18:42AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then it's interesting, but config.log would probably

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Mel
On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:48:42 Malcolm Kay wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've not been able

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:18:42 +0930, Malcolm Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34 am, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 16:48:42 Malcolm Kay wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45 pm, Mel wrote: On Thursday 10 July 2008 06:24:46 Malcolm Kay wrote: 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval test \\${$as_var+set}\ = set; }; then I find this line somewhat strange as I've not been able to find documentation for the expansion of

snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I get errors building ports/graphviz on FBSD 6.3 on alpha. It seems the error is due to configure script erroneously deciding that there is no strncasecmp function on OS. Based on config.log: configure:9333: result: no configure:9253: checking for strncasecmp I think the following configure

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:55 am, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I get errors building ports/graphviz on FBSD 6.3 on alpha. It seems the error is due to configure script erroneously deciding that there is no strncasecmp function on OS. Based on config.log: configure:9333: result: no This probably