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Further improve consistency of configure's program searching.

Peter Eisentraut noted that commit 40b9f1921 had broken a configure
behavior that some people might rely on: AC_CHECK_PROGS(FOO,...) will
allow the search to be overridden by specifying a value for FOO on
configure's command line or in its environment, but AC_PATH_PROGS(FOO,...)
accepts such an override only if it's an absolute path.  We had worked
around that behavior for some, but not all, of the pre-existing uses
of AC_PATH_PROGS by just skipping the macro altogether when FOO is
already set.  Let's standardize on that workaround for all uses of
AC_PATH_PROGS, new and pre-existing, by wrapping AC_PATH_PROGS in a
new macro PGAC_PATH_PROGS.  While at it, fix a deficiency of the old
workaround code by making sure we report the setting to configure's log.

Eventually I'd like to improve PGAC_PATH_PROGS so that it converts
non-absolute override inputs to absolute form, eg "PYTHON=python3"
becomes, say, PYTHON = /usr/bin/python3.  But that will take some
nontrivial coding so it doesn't seem like a thing to do in late beta.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90a92a7d-938e-507a-3bd7-ecd2b4004689@2ndquadrant.com
This commit is contained in:
Tom Lane
2017-08-01 11:40:00 -04:00
parent 4de6216877
commit b21c569cea
7 changed files with 267 additions and 52 deletions

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# PGAC_PATH_PYTHON
# ----------------
# Look for Python and set the output variable 'PYTHON'
# to 'python' if found, empty otherwise.
# Look for Python and set the output variable 'PYTHON' if found,
# fail otherwise.
AC_DEFUN([PGAC_PATH_PYTHON],
[AC_PATH_PROG(PYTHON, python)
[PGAC_PATH_PROGS(PYTHON, python)
if test x"$PYTHON" = x""; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([Python not found])
fi