From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Dale P. Smith" <dpsm@en.com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
Cc: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de>, Ariel Rios <ariel@arcavia.com>, guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Currnet CVS fails to configure
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:39:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A244F92.B1358472@en.com>
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Greg Troxel wrote:
> Of course, one can require having up-to-date stuff if one is using
> CVS, but this seems unfortunate.  I wonder if there is some way to put
> in configure.in a test to avoid evaling the transformed output
> of AM_PATH_GTK_2_0 if it does not get transformed, like
> 
> a=AM_PATH
> b=GTK_2_0
> c=$a_$b # avoid substitution
> if [ "AM_PATH_GTK_2_0" != $c ]; then
>   AM_PATH_GTK_2_0(blah blah)
> else
>   echo "warning: AM_PATH_GTK_2_0 not defined by aclocal, continuing
> fi

My m4 is a little rusty, but can't something like
"ifdef([AM_PATH_GTK_2_0], 2_0_stuff, pre_2_0_junk)" be used?

-Dale
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Dale P. Smith
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