Jim Meyering wrote: > My impression is that the traditional style makes it so the initialization > and AC_SUBST *textually* bracket all uses of the variable. When they > do not (as induced by your patch), it's less valuable, and perhaps even > obtuse, since the other assignment is in a separate autoconf macro that > textually follows the AC_SUBST.
That's a valid point. Feel free to improve what I committed. This module is "coreutils territory" anyway. Bruno
