On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:18:13AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote: : Paul Eggert wrote: : > I think this idea is a blind alley. If we want to use modern shell : > features, then we should go ahead and require the "configure" user to : > have a modern shell. That's much simpler. We've already started down : > that path with the LINENO changes. : : Wouldn't this be solvable by autoconf supplying it's own Shell : executable? Let's see...uhm...autosh sounds like a good name. It : wouldn't need to be interactive friendly so perhaps a starting point : would be the old Linux ash shell.
Then you can only use Autoconf on systems with C compilers. If that wasn't the case, I would be all for this :) Lars J
