Re: autoconf: exporting functions

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Petter,

* Petter Gustad wrote on Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:23:37PM CEST:
> 
> function blabla {
> }
> ...
> blabla arg1 arg2 arg2
[...]
> But then blabla gets stripped off by autoconf so I get 
> 
> ./configure: line nnnn: blabla: command not found

That's really weird, I can't reproduce that at all, it would be nice to
see a small reproducible example.  Here:

cat >configure.ac <<EOF
AC_INIT
func_hello ()
{
  echo hello world
}
func_hello
EOF
autoconf
./configure
| hello world

Please note that the `function' keyword isn't all that portable to other
shells, but specifying a function by `()' is.  Also, note there are
obscure shells out there that have only one namespace for functions and
variables, and very old ones had no function support at all; I guess you
won't care about them.  There are more caveats in the Autoconf manual
(shell portability chapter).

Cheers,
Ralf