Tim,

On Oct 23, 2:23 pm, [email protected] (Tim Newsham) wrote:

> 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.

If I need to fix this for my project only, I have already done that.

The problem is, everyone who generates configure by this version (or
some range of versions) of autoconf would run into this because this
is inserted in the configure's initialization code without any feature
tests requested by configure.ac

Since the purpose of ape is to emulate the environment configure is
expected to run in, and such mismatch has been found, it migh be
easier to fix ape than to convince maintaners of autoconf to fix on
their side...

Dmitry.

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