Re: Explicit interpreter paths considered harmful

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Sounds great, thank you.  Pushed:
>>>
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=c9fed5f857a8a6bcce5e276920fd64c43bc5c668
>>
>> That didn't work fully, since pmccabe2html.m4 did more than just
>> checking for awk: it also checked for the pmccabe tool itself.
>
> Being a maintainer-only script, I think it should not check for any tool
> in ‘configure.ac’.

Other maintainer-only scripts (if that is what is implied by being in
build-aux/) already check for things in configure, for example the
javacomp script has rather complex tests.  So I'm not sure I follow your
logic.

/Simon