Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes: > > Since > > _AS_PREPARE has invoked AS_PREPARE and required _AS_LINENO_PREPARE in > > the parent, we know that there will be no $LINENO in the child script > > unless $LINENO works. > > This gives fewer forks in the initalization of config.status. > > Ok?
Yes. Although I'd like to see a little bit of documentation in the manual about the fact that child scripts created by AS_INIT_GENERATED may report $LINENO in relation to the parent's line numbers, depending on the capabilities of the shell. -- Eric Blake
