Re: Explicit interpreter paths considered harmful

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Simon,

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

[...]

>> 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.

I was thinking about scripts that are not normally run from a release
tarball, such as ‘announce-gen’, ‘gitlog-to-changelog’, ‘gnupload’,
‘update-copyright’, etc.

Things like ‘javacomp’, ‘depcomp’, ‘missing’, etc., fall into a
different category IMO because they are typically used by the build
system from a release tarball.

Now I agree it’s not all black and white, and one could want things to
be arranged such that ‘pmccabe2html’ will work out of the box from
release tarballs.

Thanks,
Ludo’.