Re: ac-fs-separators.patch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb  3, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Feb  3, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> > +if AC_TRY_COMMAND([PATH=".;`pwd`"; conftest.sh]); then
>> 
>> I suppose it would be a good idea to run this in a sub-shell, to avoid
>> modifying the user's PATH.

> :) :) :)
> AC_TRY does this for me.

Really?  I'm not sure I like it.  What if I really want to set some
variable half-way through the tried command, to be able to undo
effects only of tests that have succeeded, or just to check how far it
got?

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