>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Paul> "configure" is normally designed to run standalone, without any user Paul> intervention. Asking for user input is much more of a pain for Paul> installers to automate; I can't recommend the practice, even though I Paul> now see that one package is doing it that way. Just brainstorming: m4_define([AS_STDIN_FD], 7) exec AS_STDIN_FD<&0 </dev/null and then let people who want to read stdin explicitly state so with read whatever <&AS_STDIN_FD Interactive input is so much non-autoconf that I feel sad about waiting for someone else to hit a "missing </dev/null" bug to fix it. I don't know why net-snmp does this, so I wouldn't dare claiming it should not. But somehow it's sounds like all other packages are paying for this, and that sounds wrong. If it works to provide an access to the original stdin as above, then is seems like a fair fee that singular setups can afford. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
