Re: mingw configure failure detection

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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