Re: build issue with AC_PROG_AWK

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 16:59 +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> 
> Yes that's pretty much the explanation, thanks Max. Nowdays I think
> we could probably nuke the search for awk in configure and just
> statically define it as PCP_AWK_PROG=awk in pcp.conf.in. That assumes
> awk will be found in the default path on all required distros .. is
> that true?

Pretty much.  That would break the ability to set the
location/binary via the AWK environment variable though
(at configure/build time).  It might be better to do it
the same way as sed...

test -z "$SED" && AC_PATH_PROG(SED, sed, /bin/sed)
sed=$SED
AC_SUBST(sed)

cheers.

-- 
Nathan