> The autoconf folks try very hard to write portable code. They go to > ridiculous lengths to support every major flavour of OS, compiler, > make, and shell. Indeed, Zack's tests show that only the recent ash > behaves differently. >
more importantly (to me anyways) is the question of why do we ship an ash that is completely different from the one the netbsd (upstream) and RH (another packager). For a long time Xu has played games with ash for seemingly his own amusement. Frankly it is growing old.
