>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Paul> Simplify the description of $CDPATH. :( :( :( Why replace an illustrated discussion of the isse with `Autoconf will get it right for you.'? Why not showing people the commands they should use outside Autoconf? I tend to use this part of the Autoconf manual as a bible for shell portability in general, not only for configure portability. I like to read the full solution in the manual, with comments explaining why other solutions wouldn't work. Removing this history seems a great lost to me. Similarly, I used to open the Autoconf manual to copy'n'paste the expr-emulation of dirname every times I needed it in a script. Today this has been replaced with `use AS_DIRNAME', with no explanation why the old "expr" command is not enough. I agree this might be a good occasion to start using `autom4te -l M4sh'; however my point is that valuable information is being removed from the manual. [...] -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
