Hello Vincent, just a quick note: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:30:51AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > diff helps to avoid some spurious differences due to line endings > (that's at least what the manual says), and at one point AC_PROG_SED > was specifically changed from using cmp to diff. [...]
and that code now resides in _AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH, which is called by both AC_PROG_GREP and AC_PROG_SED. So it is exactly the spot which Vincent stumbled over. Stepan