Re: [PATCH] Add --with-tcltk and --without-tcltk to configure.

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mar 29, 2007, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7it04fbo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070329082908.GH59098@codelabs.ru>

Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:

> Or you meant something different? I am little confused with
> the '$PATH' in your example. Was it intended?

Yes, the dollar-sign-in-pathname is pretty much a part of my pathological example.

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>> But come to think of it, it lets shell handle $PATH to find wish
>> anyway, so *unless* we have specific version dependency to wish
>> that wish binary normally found on user's $PATH is inadequate,
>> we probably should not even need to be doing any of this path
>> munging.  You might end up discovering the path to wish binary
>> in your autoconf script, we do not have to use it.  ./configure
>> can just see if there is wish, and set NO_TCLTK appropriately
>> without any of the path business.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
> There are problems at least with FreeBSD: it just installs the
> wish8.4, wish8.3, wish8.2, etc. It does not provide the bare 'wish'
> as the link to one of those.

Then sed -e 's/wish/$(WISH_NAME)/', still letting the shell to handle the path part, could be a simpler option. I dunno.