espie:
[...] I'm only tweaking libtool VERY reluctantly.
This thing is at least one harder of magnitude LESS maintainable than
a Makefile, and probably more. This partly comes from the fact that it
is impossible to debug shell scripts of such a size. This also
> Let them install BASH and get out of our way.
As someone else pointed out, bash uses autoconf.
Also, while its good to talk about bringing up GNU environments on top
of proprietary ones, the long term view is to also think about
bringing them up on raw iron.
So, pick a small set of pr
> I don't see the urgency to move to shell functions, but I do
> see how they can simplify our lives.
Uh... "if not now, when"?
Seriously, there's _always_ commercial incentive to do a half assed
job and the _real_ ego competition is to reject that incentive and do
a good jo
