Re: what's the effect of test in ac_define_dir.m4

[Andreas Schwab]

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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