Re: DOS-style paths

[Mark E.]

> There is one effect I don't understand well in fact: that of
> AC_PATH_PROG.  You now let Autoconf accept PERL=a:relative/to/perl
> where before it required PERL=a:/absolute/to/perl.  Why is it so?

One reason is to avoid the second case in AC_PATH_PROG which 
searches the path by setting IFS=":". This is a big problem when PATH 
contains drive letters.

Mark