Re: command not found -- autoconf

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:00:31 -0500

In article <pSoac.966$jS5.707@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
 "seand" <seand@internet.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I want to test environment variable $ORACLE_HOME's existence in
> configure.in, then find out the path of oracle client lib and pass it to
> makefile.ins. But I got "./configure: save_OLPATH: command not found". Here
> is what I put in configure.in :
> save_OLPATH = $ORACLE_HOME
> test -z $ORACLE_HOME && save_OLPATH="/opt/oracle/product/9.2"
> dnl assign output variable here to myprog_LDFLAGS
> AC_CHECK_FILE($save_OLPATH/lib/libclntst9.a
> ...
>
> Is this the right way? if yes, how can I avoid above error?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> -s

Your variable assignment syntax is incorrect -- you can't have spaces
around the '=' sign. So it should be:

save_OLPATH=$ORACLE_HOME

With the spaces there, it thinks that "save_OLPATH" is a command whose
first argument is '=', not a variable being assigned. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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