Re: Functions / satellite scripts (Was: bison-1.29c 'configure' problems on Solaris 8.)

[Lars J. Aas]

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