Re: mingw configure failure detection

OK, fixed.

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>following up our conversation last night, I have tested the following
> >>with autoconf 2.57 and it apparently does the right thing:
> >>
> >># Links sometimes fail undetected on Mingw -
> >># so here we detect it and warn the user
> >>case $host_os in mingw*)
> >>AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([default],[
> >>  for linkspec in : $config_links; do test "x$linkspec" = x: && continue
> >>    linktry=`echo "$linkspec" | sed 's,:.*,,'`
> >>    test -e $linktry || AC_MSG_WARN([ link for $linktry failed - please
> >>fix by hand])
> >>  done
> >>])
> >>;;
> >>esac
> >>
> >>
> >
> >OK, got it working nicely:
> >
> >    case $host_os in mingw*)
> >    AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([check_win32_symlinks],[
> >    # Links sometimes fail undetected on Mingw -
> >    # so here we detect it and warn the user
> >    for FILE in "$CONFIG_LINKS"
> >
> >
>
> The quotes in the line above are spurious and need to be removed - they
> inhibit expansion of the variable into words, which is needed. I have
> checked that with the quotes removed the macro works correctly.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
> >     do
> >            # test -e works for symlinks in the MinGW console
> >            test -e `expr "$FILE" : '\(^:*\)'` || AC_MSG_WARN([*** link for
> >    $FILE - please fix by hand])
> >     done
> >    ])
> >            ;;
> >    esac
> >
> >Applied.
> >
> >
> >
>
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