Re: none

[Harald Barth <haba@pdc.kth.se>]

> I think you are mixing compile time and runtime checks in a non obvious
> manner.

Compile time? Runtime? Configure is compile time isn't it? But I don't
care so much what it is called, it is run when configure is run and my
patch works. Your patch has a small typo and the bigger problem that
in most cases with_$1_config will be set to something *-config three
rows higher up and therefore

>  case "$with_$1_config" in
>  yes|no|"")
   ^^^^^^^^^^--nope
> +	if test -f $with_$1/bin/$with_$1_config ; then
> +		$with_$1_config=$with_$1/bin/$with_$1_config
                ^--nope
> +	fi
> +	;;
> +easc
   ^^^^--nope

the with + marked statements never will be executed. Neither does
the $with_$1_config= work as expected ;-)

I'd say instead:

*** cf/test-package.m4.orig     Tue Sep 10 17:23:38 2002
--- cf/test-package.m4  Mon Jan 26 23:21:34 2004
***************
*** 71,76 ****
--- 71,79 ----
  yes|no|"")
        ;;
  *)
+       if test -x $with_$1/bin/$with_$1_config ; then
+               with_$1_config=$with_$1/bin/$with_$1_config
+       fi
        $1_cflags="`$with_$1_config --cflags 2>&1`"
        $1_libs="`$with_$1_config --libs 2>&1`"
        ;;

Harald.