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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2005-09-18 16:29:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2005-09-18 16:29:11 +0000 |
| commit | 18b6d7de6774a0eaae137b2f890599b2a458a404 (patch) | |
| tree | 45751fdbc55e45e15d1cb98bfb25eda027175643 /configure.ac | |
| parent | a0d642c465b54f48c50ca7ed044523d4d4d61313 (diff) | |
| download | quilt-18b6d7de6774a0eaae137b2f890599b2a458a404.tar.gz | |
- configure.ac: Test for tail -n.
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.ac')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index d798b0a..d363bab 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. AC_INIT([quilt],[0.42],[quilt-dev@nongnu.org]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config) AC_PREREQ(2.53) -AC_REVISION ($Revision: 1.51 $) +AC_REVISION ($Revision: 1.52 $) PACKAGE_RELEASE=1 AC_SUBST(PACKAGE_RELEASE) @@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ fi QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(PERL, perl, [perl perl5]) QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(GREP, grep) QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(TAIL, tail) + +# Solaris' /usr/bin/tail doesn't understand -n. +AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $TAIL -n works]) +if test "`(echo first; echo second) | $TAIL -n 1 2>/dev/null`" == "second"; then + AC_MSG_RESULT(yes) +else + AC_MSG_RESULT(no) + AC_MSG_ERROR([ +Sorry, you have a version of tail which doesn't understand -n. +$PACKAGE_NAME needs it. If you have access to a version of tail which does +understand -n, you can supply its path with the '--with-tail=' option. +Solaris users can use /usr/xpg4/bin/tail. +]) +fi + QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(SED, sed) QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(AWK, awk, [gawk awk]) QUILT_COMPAT_PROG_PATH(POD2MAN, pod2man) |