Re: [Mingw-users] gtk+ configure unsuccessful

[Ralf W. <Ral...@gm...>]

Hello,

* rahed wrote on Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 07:14:20PM CEST:
> 
> I was advised to use a wrapper script around pkg-config:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> if pkg-config "$ <at> " > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> res=true
> else
> res=false
> fi
> pkg-config "$ <at> " | tr -d \\r && $res

FWIW, it is possible to post-process a command's output while running it
once only and still retaining the right exit status, see e.g. here:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5408/focus=5410>

Cheers,
Ralf