Re: [PATCH CVS] skip OS/2 system install

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:18:56AM +0000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > This patch should make search for install program skip the
> > x:\OS\INSTALL\install.exe program.  But I'm not sure that I put a
> > correct number of \\ in the file.  The number-of-\\ below works inside
> > configure script; mayb they need to be duplicated (twice?) inside m4
> > files?  I cannot check it now - autoconf will not build itself yet.

> Do you need to skip the program name without a drive letter too? E.g.:
> \os\install\install.exe?

The idea is that x:\os2\install is put (like that!) by default into
PATH when one sets up OS/2 installation.  If \os2\install is in the
PATH, there is some reason why the user wanted to do this (and having
drive-less entries in PATH is very silly too - they will not work in
many situations, like floppy or CD being the "active drive").

Thus I see no reason to have a drive-less entry special-cases by autoconf.

Hope this helps,
Ilya