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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--configure.ac9
-rw-r--r--m4/include-exclude-prog.m45
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 412f13a05..7273199c8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
2007-12-20 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+ Use comma-separated list in ./configure --help output.
+ * configure.ac: Map commas to spaces in excluded-program list.
+ Use a comma-separated list, not a space-separated one.
+ * m4/include-exclude-prog.m4 (gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG):
+ Expect list of program names to be comma-separated.
+ Reported by Jan Bauke Douma.
+
Avoid another "make check" failure due to omitted programs.
* tests/test-lib.sh (require_built_): New function.
* tests/misc/groups-version: Use it to skip this test if
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6d996de70..78c662abc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -279,12 +279,12 @@ no_install_progs_default=`echo "$t"|sed 's/ $//'`
# The compromise is to ensure that the space-separated list extracted
# above matches the literal 2nd argument below.
c="$srcdir/configure.ac"
-t=`sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* [\[\(.*\)\]])/s//\1/p' $c`
+t=`sed -n '/^g''l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG(.* [\[\(.*\)\]])/{s//\1/;s/,/ /gp}' $c`
case $t in
$no_install_progs_default) ;;
*) AC_MSG_ERROR([[internal error: g'l_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG's 2nd arg, $t,
does not match the list of default-not-installed programs
- ($no_install_progs_default) extracted also recorded in $mk]],
+ ($no_install_progs_default) also recorded in $mk]],
1) ;;
esac
@@ -294,7 +294,10 @@ esac
# "don't-install" requests.
# I.e., add any program name specified via --enable-install-program=..., and
# remove any program name specified via --enable-no-install-program=...
-gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG([optional_bin_progs], [arch hostname su])
+# Note how the second argument below is a literal, with "," separators.
+# That is required due to the way the macro works, and since the
+# corresponding ./configure option argument is comma-separated on input.
+gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG([optional_bin_progs], [arch,hostname,su])
# Set INSTALL_SU if su installation has been requested via
# --enable-install-program=su.
diff --git a/m4/include-exclude-prog.m4 b/m4/include-exclude-prog.m4
index c5e31d9a1..cf11c7835 100644
--- a/m4/include-exclude-prog.m4
+++ b/m4/include-exclude-prog.m4
@@ -27,12 +27,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_REMOVE_PROG],
# Given the name of a variable containing a space-separated list of
# install-by-default programs and the list of do-not-install-by-default
# programs, modify the former variable to reflect "no-install" and
-# "do-install" requests.
+# "do-install" requests. The names in the latter list should be comma-
+# separated.
#
# Usage: gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG([prog_list_var_name], [no_inst_prog_list])
AC_DEFUN([gl_INCLUDE_EXCLUDE_PROG],
[{
- gl_no_install_progs_default='$2'
+ gl_no_install_progs_default=`echo '$2'|sed 's/,/ /g'`
AC_ARG_ENABLE([install-program],
[AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-install-program=PROG_LIST],
[install the programs in PROG_LIST (comma-separated,