Jason: I understand your reasoning. However if two small fixes would unblock execution of many projects' configure on Plan9 IMHO they are worth making; they won't break anything.
What if you just made a command "gnuconfig" which rewrote the configure script, fixing the minor defects, and ran the result? Or bound in a dummy "ls" and "egrep" before executing the real configure script? Lets keep the infection contained.
Thanks. Dmitry
Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
