Macro: ac_prompt_user_no_define

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Synopsis

  `AC_PROMPT_USER_NO_DEFINE(VARIABLENAME,QUESTION,[DEFAULT])`

Version

  1.1.1.1 (2001/07/26) Miscellaneous @ ac-archive-0.5.39

Author

  Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu>

Description

  Asks a QUESTION and puts the results in VARIABLENAME with an optional DEFAULT value if the user merely hits return.

M4 Source Code

      AC_DEFUN([AC_PROMPT_USER_NO_DEFINE],
      dnl changequote(<<, >>) dnl
      dnl <<
      [
      if test "x$defaults" = "xno"; then
      echo $ac_n "$2 ($3): $ac_c"
      read tmpinput
      if test "$tmpinput" = "" -a "$3" != ""; then
        tmpinput="$3"
      fi
      eval $1=\"$tmpinput\"
      else
      tmpinput="$3"
      eval $1=\"$tmpinput\"
      fi
      ]
      dnl >>
      dnl changequote([, ])
      ) dnl done AC_PROMPT_USER