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Re: [PATCH 3/3] add and document AS_INIT_GENERATED


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] add and document AS_INIT_GENERATED
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:58:39 +0200
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>> This is not likely, but neither is it only hypothetical: just replace Z
>> with $LINENO and Y with shell functions.
> 
> Which shells lack shell functions?

Well, there is always that infamous version of zsh that does not pass
the test. :-(

>> +Note that @code{AS_INIT_GENERATED} does not emit the entire prolog,
>> +including the @code{#! /bin/sh} line.  Currently, the suggested idiom
>> +for writing a M4sh shell script within another script is:
> 
> I would write the paragraph like this (I think it is important to warn the 
> user 
> to _not_ blindly use /bin/sh in the child script):

Okay, thanks.

Paolo




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