Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (stdin/stdout support for config.status)

[Akim Demaille]

| The most logical thing would probably just be to do this:
|     ac_file_inputs=`IFS=:
|                     for f in $ac_file_in; do
|                       case $f in
|                       -)   echo $tmp/stdin ;;   # stdin
| +                     /*)  echo $f ;;           # absolute paths
| +                     ./*) echo $f ;;           # builddir-relative paths
|                       *)   echo $ac_given_srcdir/$f ;; # srcdir paths
|                       esac
|                     done`
| 
| What do you think?

Very nice!  You should use the pattern used a bit everywhere to match
absolute paths though (in case the system is DOS).

I vote for this.