Olly Betts
2004-May-11 21:03 UTC
[Xapian-devel] Re: [Xapian-commits] Changes in xapian/xapian-bindings/
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 08:11:23PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:> Also, change tests for non-zeroness of interpreter paths to tests > for existence and executability of interpreter paths: this is > relevant if configure is passed an interpreter path by the user > which doesn't exist (as my debian packaging makefile just did).A problem is that "test -x" isn't portable, at least according to the goat book - see the bottom of this page: http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_216.html I don't know which platforms it isn't supported on, but this message suggests it's not a totally academic concern: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2002-12/msg00098.html With your fix to use $PYTHON instead of python, test -x isn't actually needed AFAICS - the case statement will just get empty stdout and so the bindings will be disabled. I tested "./configure TCLSH=/no/such/path" and tcl8 doesn't get put in SUBDIRS in Makefile. Are you OK with reverting this? Cheers, Olly
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