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Re: 60-fyi-wrappers.patch


From: Tim Van Holder
Subject: Re: 60-fyi-wrappers.patch
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:51:41 +0200

> | +AUTOTEST_PATH='m4_default([$2], [$1])'
> | +test "$at_path_separator" = ":" ||
> | +  AUTOTEST_PATH=`echo $AUTOTEST_PATH | tr ':' $at_path_separator`
> 
> Please, we don't know yet if there are tr broken that way.  Let's not
> create myths.  And don't use at_path_separator, but $PATH_SEPARATOR.
My bad.  Will fix it.

> Actually you patch is not the one I expected: I thought implementing
> this in autotest/general.m4 so that when people
> 
>         ./testsuite AUTOTEST_PATH=bin:test
> 
> the trick still works.  In fact, I really prefer the latter.

Ah - ok.
I'll submit a couple of DOS-related patches over the weekend.  Since
it seems the DJGPP perl problem that broke autom4te has been found and
fixed, I can start keeping a close eye on autoconf development again.




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