Re: Conditional Configuration

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 25/05/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Paulo J. Matos wrote on Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:02:26PM CEST:
> > On 25/05/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > >if test "${enable_static_modules}" = "no"; then
> > >  :
> > >  AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> > >fi
>
> > Nice. :-)
> > AS_IF([test "${enable_static_modules}" = "no"], [: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN])
> > Works for some reason... without : doesn't!
>
> Please don't write it that way.  If we ever decide that
> AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN should expand to shell code (and not just change some
> state at M4 time, which then induces a shell snippet elsewhere), then
> the above could silently fail, while mine wouldn't.  You could write
>   AS_IF([test "${enable_static_modules}" = "no"], [:; AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN])

Oh, ok... missing the semi-colon.
Thanks for clearing me out! :)

> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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