Re: list of portable tools

[Karl Berry]

    two lists of tools: one in address@hidden Utilities in Makefiles' and one in
    address@hidden Install Command Categories'.  Should libtool now need to
    restrict itself to the intersection of both lists, as it is invoked
    both at build and install time

I believe "intersection" is a red herring.  The Utilities list is a
proper subset of the Install list, unless I missed something.  So if you
manage to get things working with the Utilities list, you are fine :).

Also, if libtool is invoked as a pre-install or post-install command
(which it seems like it might be), libtool itself should be on the
Install list.

Does anyone know if that pre/post install mechanism is actually used, in
practice?  I admit that stuff has never been entirely clear to me.

Also, I therefore believe that our proposal should be to add utilities
to both lists.

Meanwhile, what is the issue with awk and NUL bytes?  Does gawk really
eat NULs?  Or is it other awks that are the problem?  Or is the problem
theoretical?

karl