Re: Why does 'AC_MSG_CHECKING' output extra junk.

[Dominique Leuenberger]

>>> On 8/7/2009 at 13:45, "Dr. David Kirkby" <address@hidden> wrote: 
> If I have this in my configure.ac
> 
> AC_MSG_CHECKING([if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker])
> 
> then run the configure script, I see:
> 
> checking if gcc uses the GNU or Sun linker... checking for a sed that 
> does not truncate output... /opt/csw/bin/gsed
>
> I've not asked it to check for sed, so why is it putting that in the end?
> 

It looks to my like that would just be the next check in the list to execute. 
Could it be that there is just a \n missing for the end? (Might be
difficult to say without more context from configure.ac).

Dominique

PS: and then: I actually don't know what I'm talking about :)