On 20/10/2009 14:44, Dan Nicholson wrote: > What I'm saying is that AC_PATH_PROGS already respects > GROFF=/foo/groff in the environment. AC_ARG_VAR means you can also > pass that on the command line to configure. Is that necessary or does > the existing support in AC_PATH_PROGS work (please check)?
The autoconf manual[1] says: "You are strongly encouraged to declare the variable passed to AC_CHECK_PROG etc. as precious, See Setting Output Variables, AC_ARG_VAR, for more details." The other benefit is that the override shows up in configure --help. So yes, I think this is necessary. Yaakov Cygwin/X [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Generic-Programs _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
