From 3fc39a6efbb71f45bc959e511723b07521b35493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:17:53 +0000
Subject: alert the user if 'sed' or 'ar' couldn't be found, as it might very
 well render a build impossible

---
 configure.ac | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'configure.ac')

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 367f96a4e..05e36d106 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -16,12 +16,22 @@ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(lib/config.h src/config.h)
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
 
 dnl SED is needed by some of the tools
-AC_PATH_PROG( SED, sed, , $PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin)
+AC_PATH_PROG( SED, sed, sed-was-not-found-by-configure,
+              $PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin)
 AC_SUBST(SED)
 
+if test "x$SED" = "xsed-was-not-found-by-configure"; then
+  AC_MSG_WARN([sed was not found, this may ruin your chances to build fine])
+fi
+
 dnl AR is used by libtool, and try the odd Solaris path too
-AC_PATH_PROG( AR, ar, , $PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin)
+AC_PATH_PROG( AR, ar,
+              ar-was-not-found-by-configure,
+              $PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin)
 AC_SUBST(AR)
+if test "x$AR" = "xar-was-not-found-by-configure"; then
+  AC_MSG_WARN([ar was not found, this may ruin your chances to build fine])
+fi
 
 dnl figure out the libcurl version
 VERSION=`$SED -ne 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION "\(.*\)"/\1/p' ${srcdir}/include/curl/curlver.h`
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