The type -p check is not compatible with POSIX shells, and indeed fails
when used with the FreeBSD 8 default shell. Instead the AC_CHECK_PROG macro
is written properly to look for the command.
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([CANONICAL_HOST], "$host", [Canonical host string.])
-if type -p stow > /dev/null && test -d /usr/local/stow ; then
+AC_CHECK_PROG([STOW], [stow], [yes], [no])
+
+AS_IF([test "x$STOW" = "xyes" && test -d /usr/local/stow], [
AC_MSG_NOTICE([*** Found /usr/local/stow: default install prefix set to /usr/local/stow/${PACKAGE_NAME}-${PACKAGE_VERSION} ***])
ac_default_prefix="/usr/local/stow/${PACKAGE_NAME}-${PACKAGE_VERSION}"
-fi
+])
AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])