On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 13:09 -0500, Paul Wilson wrote:
  

Hi there,

The current configure.ac in CGM invokes

    AC_PROG_SED

instead of

  AC_CHECK_PROG( [SED], [sed], [sed], [true] )

It turns out that the former does not work on my system, but the latter 
does.  Is there a reason to use one over the other?  I notice that MOAB 
uses the latter.
    

What version of autoconf are you using? 2.13 doesn't have the former,
but modern versions should have it. If you need 2.13 for some other
projects, there's an autoconf2.13 package in Debian/Ubuntu that will
automatically switch between 2.13 and 2.50+ based on the configure file.
  

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