Re: Testing platform

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Dr. David Kirkby wrote on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:15:19PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >In any case, you should not use $foobar for both; if you need both, have
> >two variables, which can default to the same thing.  And let your user
> >know which is what, and how they can be overridden.
> >
> >>AC_CHECK_PROG(foobar,bash,[yes],[no],[])
> >>if test x$foobar  != xyes
> >
> >The foobar variable will not be set to "yes" if bash is found anywhere,
> >but to the command you can use to invoke bash.
> 
> Strange that, as it seemed to work. If I understand you correctly,
> (which I guess I am not), you are implying the script will not work
> at all.

You are right.  I simply totally forgot to look past
  AC_CHECK_PROG(foobar,bash

> I already had one of AC_CANONICAL_BUILD or  AC_CANONICAL_BUILD, but
> now have both. How can I use them?

  case $host in
  *-*-solaris*) ... ;;
  *-*-hpux*) ... ;;
  esac

or
  case $host_os in
  solaris*) ... ;;
  hpux*) ... ;;
  esac

> I do not want to test for each individual release of HP-UX before
> giving a message. There must be hundreds of minor releases, and I've
> no idea what they are.

So just test for the inital part of the OS name as above.

HTH.

Cheers,
Ralf