Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >> Is there any reason why this would be a very bad idea? > > It is inconsistent? The auto* tools (viz. autoconf) still > assumes a shell that has no functions. This makes the config > script incredibly larger and slower than necessary. That > annoys me greatly, far beyond this wart. Lobby for that change > first!!
The configure script will be run on the user's system, whereas automake runs on the developer's system. You can expect that a developer upgrades his system from time to time, but you still want to be able to configure and build a package on an old system. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
