Finally solving platform specific ncurses check in autoconf - cause: broken SYMLINKs to config.sub/guess > one configure.ac works anywhere now.

configure.ac

@@ -16,9 +16,19 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 # Checks for programs.
 AC_PROG_CC
 
-# ncurses check.
-AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, killwchar, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find ncursesw library])])
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(ncursesw/curses.h)
+# Platform specific ncurses check.
+AC_CANONICAL_HOST
+AS_CASE([$host_os],
+  [darwin*],
+    [
+      AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, killwchar, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find ncurses library])])
+      AC_CHECK_HEADER(curses.h)
+    ],
+  [
+    AC_CHECK_LIB(ncursesw, killwchar, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find ncursesw library])])
+    AC_CHECK_HEADER(ncursesw/curses.h)
+  ]
+)
 
 # Checks for libraries.
 AC_CHECK_LIB(m, cos, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find m library])])

dist/1-dist.sh

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ aclocal
 automake --force-missing --add-missing
 autoconf
 
-rm -rvf autom*te.cache
+rm -rvf autom*te.cache config.sub config.guess
 
 if [ -d ${AUTOMAKE_LIB} ]
 then
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ then
     cp -vf ${AUTOMAKE_LIB}/depcomp .
     cp -vf ${AUTOMAKE_LIB}/install-sh .
     cp -vf ${AUTOMAKE_LIB}/missing .
+    # platform specific detection in configure.ac
+    cp -vf ${AUTOMAKE_LIB}/config.sub .
+    cp -vf ${AUTOMAKE_LIB}/config.guess .
 else 
     echo "****************************************************************"
     echo "Error: automake ${AUTOMAKE_LIB} not found - exiting!"

dist/mac/configure.ac

@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-#
-
-AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-
-AC_INIT(hh, 1.16, martin.dvorak@mindforger.com)
-AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile man/Makefile])
-
-# Checks for src dir existence.
-AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/hstr.c])
-
-# Init (no longer takes parameters).
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
-
-# Checks for programs.
-AC_PROG_CC
-
-# Mac specific ncurses check 
-#   Unfortunately AC_CANONICAL_HOST macro cannot be used to 
-#   detect Linux/Mac platform as it actives the use of config.sub/config.guess
-#   which doesn't work when building for launchpad (and @ launchpad)
-AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, killwchar, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find ncurses library])])
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(curses.h)
-
-# Checks for libraries.
-AC_CHECK_LIB(m, cos, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find m library])])
-AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, using_history, [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([Could not find readline library])])
-
-# Checks for header files.
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(assert.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(ctype.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(fcntl.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(getopt.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(locale.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(math.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(readline/history.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(regex.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(signal.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(stdbool.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(stddef.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(stdio.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(stdlib.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(string.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(sys/ioctl.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(termios.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(unistd.h)
-AC_CHECK_HEADER(wchar.h)
-
-# Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
-AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL
-AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
-
-# Checks for library functions.
-AC_FUNC_MALLOC
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memset strdup strstr])
-
-AC_OUTPUT

dist/ubuntu-make-all-distros.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ export HHBZRMSG="History timestamps, Zsh support and management fixes."
 export VERSION=1.16.
 export MINOR=1
 
-# precise quantal saucy / precise trusty utopic
+# precise quantal saucy precise / trusty utopic
 for DISTRO in trusty utopic
 do
 

dist/ubuntu-make-distro.sh

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export UBUNTUVERSION=$1
 #export UBUNTUVERSION=quantal
 #export UBUNTUVERSION=saucy
 #export UBUNTUVERSION=trusty
+#export UBUNTUVERSION=utopic
 export HHVERSION=$2
 export HHBZRMSG=$3
 
@@ -35,8 +36,6 @@ function checkout_hh() {
   mv ../.bzr .
   cp -rvf ${HHSRC}/* ${HHSRC}/*.*  .
   cd ..
-  #tar zcf ${HH}.tgz ${HH}
-  #cp -vf ${H}.tgz ${HH}.orig.tar.gz
   mv -v ${HH} hh
   cd ./hh/dist && ./1-dist.sh && cd ../..
 }

src/hstr.c

@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static const char *HELP_STRING=
         "\n";
 
 static const char *VERSION_STRING=
-        "hh version \"1.15\""
+        "hh version \"1.17\""
         "\n   build   \""__DATE__" " __TIME__"\""
         "\n";