Re: ax_prog_apxs.m4

[Guido Draheim]

Dustin Mitchell wrote:
> I'm also using apxs, and for Apache module builders it would be handy to
> be able to find this program easily.  Here's the macro to do just that.
>
> --snip--
> dnl @synopsis AX_PROG_APXS
> dnl
> dnl Locates an installed apxs binary.  Accepts --with-apxs, and failing
> dnl that searches for apxs in the path (using AC_PATH_PROG).  If apxs is found,
> dnl $APXS is set to the full path of the binary; otherwise, nothing is changed.
> dnl
> dnl Example:
> dnl
> dnl   AX_PROG_APXS
> dnl   if test -z "$APXS"
> dnl   then
> dnl     AC_MSG_ERROR("apxs not found")
> dnl   fi
> dnl
> dnl @author Dustin Mitchell <address@hidden>
> AC_DEFUN([AX_PROG_APXS],
> [
>  AC_MSG_CHECKING(for --with-apxs)
>  AC_ARG_WITH(apxs,
>              AC_HELP_STRING([--with-apxs=APXS],
>                             [absolute path name of apxs executable]),
>   [
>     if test -f $withval -a -x $withval;
>     then
>        AC_MSG_RESULT($withval)
>        APXS="$withval"
>        AC_SUBST(APXS)
>     else
>        AC_MSG_RESULT($withval is not executable)
>     fi
>   ], [
>     AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
>   ])
>
>   # if it's not found, check the paths.
>   if test -z "$APXS" 
>   then
>     AC_PATH_PROG(APXS, apxs, , 
> /usr/local/apxs/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin)
>     AC_SUBST(APXS)
>   fi
> ])
> --snip--

Same stuff here, perhaps consider to compute a prog search path as
/usr/apxs/bin:/usr/local/apxs/bin:$PATH or even more clever variants.
That heurisistic itselfs lends a functionality that should be
distributed in the ac archive IYAM, it just needs to be done beefy.

HTH, cheers,
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