Re: Re: #17576 [Opn->Bgs]: configure bug

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:17:30PM +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >Selection is done on configure.in or configure.ac by inspecting AC_PREREQ > >macro which is not available in php's configure.in: > ># Find the version > >VER=sed -n -e '/AC_PREREQ/s/[^(]*(\([[:digit:]\.]*\)).*$/\1/p' > >< $infile > >VER_MAJ=echo $VER | awk -F. '{print $1}' > >VER_MIN=echo $VER | awk -F. '{print $2}' > > eh..where is this from? Presumably from the cygwin autoconf wrapper. It looks like it extracts the application's required version of autoconf based on the value of AC_PREREQ, and, based on those values, executes the most "appropriate" version of autoconf. > >I don't know the reason for the exclusion, but it would make life on cygwin > >systems easier. > > Was that in it at all or what? I don't grok your English, but it sounds like the cygwin case could be satisfied simple by adding this magical AC_PREREQ value somewhere in the autoconf scripts (unless, as noted above, there is a real reason for it being excluded in the first place). -- Jon Parise (jon@php.net) :: The PHP Project (http://www.php.net/)