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Re: Problem with AC_PATH_PROG


From: Clinton Roy
Subject: Re: Problem with AC_PATH_PROG
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:37:47 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Informed Management, sparc-sun-solaris2.8)

Giuseppe Greco <address@hidden> writes:

> 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, 
and configure, right? (it pays to make sure :)

> I'm missing something? Are there errors in my statements?
Your macro needs to call AC_SUBST, something like:

AC_SUBST($1)

after the call to AC_PATH_PROG.

hope that helps,
-- 
Clinton Roy
Elvin Software Engineer - elvin.dstc.edu.au
Humbug Vice president   - www.humbug.org.au




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