Re: AC_OBJEXT revisited

[Lars J. Aas]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 09:33:40AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
: Hi Lars!

Hi Akim,

: |    `ls' doesn't list the files in the same order as they are
: |    written on the command line, causing the priority list to go
: |    bonkers, making the .exe file appear before the .obj file.
: 
: What kind of ls is that???
: 
: |    Maybe this is a better solution: ?
: | 
: |   m4_define([_AC_COMPILER_OBJEXT],
: |   [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for object suffix], ac_cv_objext,
: |   [_AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],
: | ! [for ac_file in `(ls conftest.o conftest.obj; ls conftest.*) 
2>/dev/null`; do
: 
: That's smart :)  But really, what ls is this???

GNU ls (4.0) on Linux and Cygwin.

BTW, in the EXEEXT test, you need to separate the ls into three ls-commands, 
because
`ls conftest.exe conftest' will swap the results as you saw from Ralf's example.

  Lars J
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