Problem with AC_PATH_PROG

[Giuseppe Greco]

Hi volks,

I wrote a macro m4 like this

dnl ZT_CHECK_PROG(variable, program)
dnl
dnl   Check whether 'program' exists on the native system and
dnl   set 'variable' to the entire path of 'program'.
dnl
AC_DEFUN(ZT_CHECK_PROG,
[
  AC_PATH_PROG($1, $2)

  if test -z "[$]$1"; then
    AC_MSG_ERROR([You need '$2' to proceed.])
  fi
])

... and I call it with a statement like these


...
ZT_CHECK_PROG(LATEX, latex)
ZT_CHECK_PROG(TEX4HT, tex4ht)
...

Well, after running automake and autoconf, the generated
Makefiles don't contain the defined variables (in that case
LATEX and TEX4HT), and of course, the building process
always fail...

I'm missing something? Are there errors in my statements?


I'm using Aucoconf 2.53.

Thanks,


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