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Re: checking Mac OS X headers


From: Braden McDaniel
Subject: Re: checking Mac OS X headers
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:23:30 -0500

On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:04 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote: 
> Hey,
> 
> I restart this thread.
> 
> So, what I would like to do is checking Mac OS X headers in an m4 macro. 
> If the objective C compiler is installed, no problem. If it is not, i 
> would like that, in the m4 macro, the test not to be done.

Why do you want the test to be conditional?

My experience is that, in general, conditional tests add complexity with
very little return.  Why not just let the test fail where the requisite
bits are missing and decide if that actually matters later in the
script?

-- 
Braden McDaniel <address@hidden>





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