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Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4 |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:17:09 +0200 |
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Ionutz Borcoman <address@hidden> writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I'm new to autotools an need something like missing facility --*dir.
|>
|> I've started playing with ac_define_dir.m4 from the autoconf archive:
|> http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/Miscellaneous/ac_define_dir.html
|>
|> My modified version looks to produce what I want, but I fail to understand
|> how is it functioning. What's the purpose of those test lines ? They're
|> not in an if statement ! So what are they doing ?
This is standard Bourne shell syntax. There is no requirement that test
is only used in if.
Andreas.
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Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4, Ionutz Borcoman, 2002/06/24