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Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems
From: |
Earnie Boyd |
Subject: |
Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.) |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:16:18 -0400 |
"Lars J. Aas" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:18:13AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> : Paul Eggert wrote:
> : > I think this idea is a blind alley. If we want to use modern shell
> : > features, then we should go ahead and require the "configure" user to
> : > have a modern shell. That's much simpler. We've already started down
> : > that path with the LINENO changes.
> :
> : Wouldn't this be solvable by autoconf supplying it's own Shell
> : executable? Let's see...uhm...autosh sounds like a good name. It
> : wouldn't need to be interactive friendly so perhaps a starting point
> : would be the old Linux ash shell.
>
> Then you can only use Autoconf on systems with C compilers. If that wasn't
> the case, I would be all for this :)
>
How many systems with Bourne compliant shells don't have a C compiler?
How many systems without GNU m4 that need to build it?
IMNSHO a C compiler should be a requirement of autoconf even if C isn't
the language being autoconfigured.
Earnie.
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- Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.), Paul Eggert, 2001/10/21
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- Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.), Lars J. Aas, 2001/10/22
- Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.),
Earnie Boyd <=
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