From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:19:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: On HP-UX 10 `ranlib --version' creates `./--version'.
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On HP-UX 10 `ranlib --version' creates `./--version'.
Reported by Bob Proulx and Jim Meyering.
* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG): Do not invoke the
program with --version.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 27bcadc4f..3555f7ba5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2001-04-24  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
+
+	On HP-UX 10 `ranlib --version' creates `./--version'.
+	Reported by Bob Proulx and Jim Meyering.
+
+	* acgeneral.m4 (AC_CHECK_PROG, AC_PATH_PROG): Do not invoke the
+	program with --version.
+
 2001-04-22  Jim Meyering  <meyering@lucent.com>
 
 	* acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Remove `int main () {' and the
diff --git a/acgeneral.m4 b/acgeneral.m4
index 99f0887a1..5aa11925e 100644
--- a/acgeneral.m4
+++ b/acgeneral.m4
@@ -2408,7 +2408,6 @@ m4_ifvaln([$6],
 fi])dnl
 ac_cv_prog_$1="$3"
 echo "$as_me:__oline__: found $ac_dir/$ac_word" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
-AC_TRY_COMMAND([$ac_dir/$ac_word --version </dev/null >&2])
 break])
 m4_ifvaln([$6],
 [if test $ac_prog_rejected = yes; then
@@ -2474,7 +2473,6 @@ AC_CACHE_VAL([ac_cv_path_$1],
 [if AS_EXECUTABLE_P("$ac_dir/$ac_word"); then
    ac_cv_path_$1="$ac_dir/$ac_word"
    echo "$as_me:__oline__: found $ac_dir/$ac_word" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
-   AC_TRY_COMMAND([$ac_dir/$ac_word --version </dev/null >&2])
    break
 fi])
 dnl If no 3rd arg is given, leave the cache variable unset,
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
index 99f0887a1..5aa11925e 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
@@ -2408,7 +2408,6 @@ m4_ifvaln([$6],
 fi])dnl
 ac_cv_prog_$1="$3"
 echo "$as_me:__oline__: found $ac_dir/$ac_word" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
-AC_TRY_COMMAND([$ac_dir/$ac_word --version </dev/null >&2])
 break])
 m4_ifvaln([$6],
 [if test $ac_prog_rejected = yes; then
@@ -2474,7 +2473,6 @@ AC_CACHE_VAL([ac_cv_path_$1],
 [if AS_EXECUTABLE_P("$ac_dir/$ac_word"); then
    ac_cv_path_$1="$ac_dir/$ac_word"
    echo "$as_me:__oline__: found $ac_dir/$ac_word" >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
-   AC_TRY_COMMAND([$ac_dir/$ac_word --version </dev/null >&2])
    break
 fi])
 dnl If no 3rd arg is given, leave the cache variable unset,