On Feb 14, 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olly Betts) wrote:
> One thought: If this tracing is for use when automake is being used,
> you can rely on perl being available.
It's not only for automake, but it is sensible to require perl to
properly match brackets. This can't be done with regular expressions,
but I heard perl has an extended regexp engine that can do stuff like
that. Unless we won't support arguments containing brackets, in which
case we don't really need this extended support, and regular shell
tools would do.
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