m4 - executing a shell command
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Hi,
I'm new to m4 and am trying to set up a macro which allows the user to specify the location of a library at configure-time ./configure --with-mylib=/path/to/lib.so
.
In the m4 macro using AC_ARG_WITH
, I'll check that the given file actually exists, and then store the path to said lib. MYLIB_PATH=esyscmd([dirname $withval])
. This produces the error:
dirname: missing operand
The shell doesn't seem to know about $withval
. How do I get it through to execute this command?
Thanks,
Andrew
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