Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

[Dan Kegel]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Dan Kegel <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > That's a nice feature of Debian, but unfortunately,
> > it does not help in the case of somebody trying to
> > write a shell script that must invoke autoconf-2.13
> > no matter what distro (Debian, Cygwin, or Red Hat)
> > it runs on.  For such a shell script, having a standard
> > way to invoke exactly autoconf-2.13 is a must.
>
>
> "must"?  You can't test what name it's available under?

Oh, foo.  Yes, I could provide my own standard way
to invoke autoconf-2.13.  Maybe I could even write
an autoconf macro for it.

I'm going away now.  I'm sorry I ever tried to improve things.
- Dan

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