[cgma-dev] Minor issue in configure.ac

[James Porter]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 13:09 -0500, Paul Wilson wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> The current configure.ac in CGM invokes
> 
>     AC_PROG_SED
> 
> instead of
> 
>   AC_CHECK_PROG( [SED], [sed], [sed], [true] )
> 
> It turns out that the former does not work on my system, but the latter 
> does.  Is there a reason to use one over the other?  I notice that MOAB 
> uses the latter.

What version of autoconf are you using? 2.13 doesn't have the former,
but modern versions should have it. If you need 2.13 for some other
projects, there's an autoconf2.13 package in Debian/Ubuntu that will
automatically switch between 2.13 and 2.50+ based on the configure file.

- Jim