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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:59:36 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: TestCompile, HP-UX and -r/-x
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Jim Jagielski wrote:
> 
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> >
> > Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a quick little fix...
> > >
> > > Index: src/helpers/TestCompile
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /export/home/cvs/apache-1.3/src/helpers/TestCompile,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.9
> > > diff -u -r1.9 TestCompile
> > > --- TestCompile 1998/03/05 12:42:30     1.9
> > > +++ TestCompile 1998/04/10 22:55:52
> > > @@ -120,8 +120,9 @@
> > >  # Now run that Makefile
> > >  eval "make $TARGET >/dev/null $ERRDIR"
> > >
> > > -# And see if dummy exists, if so, then we assume the
> > > -# condition we are testing for is good
> > > -if [ -f $TARGET ]; then
> > > +# And see if dummy exists and is executable, if so, then we
> > > +# assume the condition we are testing for is good
> > > +TESTTARG=`PATH=".:$PATH" ./PrintPath $TARGET`
> >
> > Surely this should just be .?
> >
> 
> I'm guessing you mean the PATH part? Well, the problem is that
> PrintPath uses 'cat' instead of just '/bin/cat' (ie: it
> internally uses $PATH) so if we set PATH to '.' then PrintPath
> will fail because ./cat doesn't exist. We could assume cat lives
> in /bin but...
> 
> That's why it does the mucking around... if we could assume all
> cats were in /bin we could fix PrintPath and just
> 
>    if PATH=`pwd` ./PrintPath -s $TARGET
> 
> which would be cleaner... But I wouldn't want to assume that
> and cause Configure to start barfing on weird systems where it
> worked before (and we'll need to worry about where it is... Ugg).

Hmmm ... guess we need to set something different, like:

PRINT_PATH=`pwd` ./PrintPath -s $TARGET

and have PrintPath mess with PATH as appropriate. The snag being, of
course, that if $TARGET happens to be on the path somewhere it all goes
horribly wrong.

Cheers,

Ben.

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