* Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:54:37PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How about this slightly simpler patch instead? If you don't like it, > > then I think your patch is a definite improvement, and is OK by me. > > I prefer yours and almost went that way myself, but wonder if it's > portable enough. I don't see any other uses of 'if...fi <', in autoconf.
Yes, that's pretty portable. IIRC it may create a subshell, but that doesn't matter here. > > then it would make a difference. The original aim was that users should > > be able to substitute any characters they like (except for \0). And the > > above is not so unlikely if the configure script itself happens to be > > converted to w32 text mode. > > Good to know I wasn't preserving that code for nothing ;-) > I'll add a comment to that effect. Thanks! Ralf
