Re: fatal: ambiguous message

[Bruce Korb]

On 01/03/11 10:56, Eric Blake wrote:
>>  Also, if such
>> complexity is required, perhaps an autoconf macro a la:
>>   AC_ESYSCMD_OK([./git-version-gen .tarball-version])
>> that will error out of the command exits non-zero?
> 
> Now that's a nice idea!  I'd rather name it m4_esyscmd_ok (and a
> counterpart m4_syscmd_ok), since it ties closely to m4_esyscmd, but the
> idea of having a syntactic sugar wrapper ....... does seem
> useful.  Of course, a drawback is that you'd have to require a
> new-enough autoconf to use that new macro, or else provide it's
> implementation as a fallback when using older autoconf.

Hi Eric,

I would surely do that in libposix.  Thanks!
But, since the git-version-gen script is being fixed, it
shouldn't be necessary....

Cheers - Bruce