Re: ac-fs-separators.patch

[Akim Demaille]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

I'm not against something new, I'm not again deciding this behavior
for AC_TRY_COMMAND, but it's been like this in the previous Autoconves.