On Apr 10, 2001, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russ> Is there any way that the driver scripts could be generated
Russ> using M4 so that all the portability junk can be hidden, just
Russ> like autoconf lets the end user do for the configure script?
> That's correct, and that's what Autom4ke is for. That's why
s/m4ke/m4te/
> m4sugar.m4 and m4sh.m4 were created. But again, Autoconf is
> addressing portability issues on the user side, not on the maintainer
> side.
Why not address them on the maintainer side too? Why not have our own
dog food? :-)
AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT (or however it's spelled these days :-) rules!
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