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Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 3 120 failed
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 3 120 failed |
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Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:45:49 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:
> 2) On ancient systems, the old `test -f' was ``good enough''
> approximation,
But I thought the whole problem was that people were putting
directories named 'perl' in their path.
To some extent you're right, it's not a big deal. It just really
bugged me that the old code was incoherent. It also bugged me that
there wasn't a portable, sort-of-reliable equivalent to 'test -x'.
Now there is. (sort of :-)
AS_EXECUTABLE_P is still a misnomer, since it doesn't guarantee that
the file is executable. But that's something that could be addressed
latter, I guess.