On 2025-01-14 02:09, Harmen Stoppels wrote:
Just wondered whether the comment was meant to end up in everybody's
configure scripts, or whether it was an accidental shell comment instead
of an m4 comment.
It'd be fine to move it to m4.
All good. Just wondered whether the comment was meant to end up in everybody's
configure scripts, or whether it was an accidental shell comment instead
of an m4 comment. For example c04c47665cd57b5399f92ff5607544889d5bfda9
partially undid the long shell comment.
On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at
"Zack Weinberg" writes:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 4:52 AM, Harmen Stoppels via Patches for autoconf -
> the GNU build system wrote:
>> The shell comment `# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's
>> syntax. :-)` is redistributed in all release tarballs of all autotools
>> packages since 2001
On 1/13/25 06:23, Zack Weinberg wrote:
I don't have a strong opinion here but it actually seems like a humorous
tribute to me and worth preserving.
I introduced that comment in 2001, in Autoconf commit
4c359a43491c37203e08f2350cff1043a87ca18b.
I probably met Lee when I gave a talk at Bell La
On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 4:52 AM, Harmen Stoppels via Patches for autoconf -
the GNU build system wrote:
> The shell comment `# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's
> syntax. :-)` is redistributed in all release tarballs of all autotools
> packages since 2001.
Lee Edward McMahon was the ori
The shell comment `# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's syntax. :-)`
is redistributed in all release tarballs of all autotools packages since 2001.
I don't know the context, but feels like an odd comment, so just delete it.
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