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| author | Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net> | 2009-01-21 22:10:40 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Jakma <paul@quagga.net> | 2009-06-19 15:03:31 +0100 |
| commit | 7ec573661ff046f6fa97d694de7a68dede2532fd (patch) | |
| tree | af1fd3206ed90ad0dec7844abf18deac579af846 /configure.ac | |
| parent | ec5e42b3c50e3a8e95963161319fa1a56466b2ae (diff) | |
[configure] fix check for GNU awk/gawk to abort ./configure if missing
It also prints what were comments explaining why gawk is necessary, and
not-in-PATH to help user figure out why it's not found.
Build was mysteriously failing with the old version of this check when gawk
wasn't installed.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rwxr-xr-x | configure.ac | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 63cef65b..db36d5ed 100755 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ AC_CANONICAL_TARGET() AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.6) AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) -dnl GNU awk is required for lib/memtype.h made by memtypes.awk. -dnl BSD awk complains: awk: gensub doesn't support backreferences (subst "\1") -AC_CHECK_PROG([GAWK],[gawk],[gawk],[/bin/false]) +AC_CHECK_PROG([GAWK],[gawk],[gawk],[not-in-PATH]) +if test "x$GAWK" = "xnot-in-PATH" ; then + AC_MSG_ERROR([GNU awk is required for lib/memtype.h made by memtypes.awk. +BSD awk complains: awk: gensub doesn't support backreferences (subst "\1") ]) +fi AC_ARG_VAR([GAWK],[GNU AWK]) dnl default is to match previous behavior |