[cgma-dev] Minor issue in configure.ac

[Paul Wilson]

James Porter wrote:
> 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.
>   
I'm using autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6.  Maybe it is automake that 
is the problem?

Paul

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