Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>>following up our conversation last night, I have tested the following
>>with autoconf 2.57 and it apparently does the right thing:
>>
>># Links sometimes fail undetected on Mingw -
>># so here we detect it and warn the user
>>case $host_os in mingw*)
>>AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([default],[
>> for linkspec in : $config_links; do test "x$linkspec" = x: && continue
>> linktry=`echo "$linkspec" | sed 's,:.*,,'`
>> test -e $linktry || AC_MSG_WARN([ link for $linktry failed - please
>>fix by hand])
>> done
>>])
>>;;
>>esac
>>
>>
>
>OK, got it working nicely:
>
> case $host_os in mingw*)
> AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([check_win32_symlinks],[
> # Links sometimes fail undetected on Mingw -
> # so here we detect it and warn the user
> for FILE in "$CONFIG_LINKS"
>
>
The quotes in the line above are spurious and need to be removed - they
inhibit expansion of the variable into words, which is needed. I have
checked that with the quotes removed the macro works correctly.
cheers
andrew
> do
> # test -e works for symlinks in the MinGW console
> test -e `expr "$FILE" : '\(^:*\)'` || AC_MSG_WARN([*** link for
> $FILE - please fix by hand])
> done
> ])
> ;;
> esac
>
>Applied.
>
>
>
