Re: sed, pathnames, commas, ?(shell functions)

[Akim Demaille]

 >> It occurs to me that this could also be solved by generating a small
 >> standalone script using the tmpdir mechanism, to replace the shell
 >> function.  Would that solution be preferable?

Number one problem is that most of the time, we want the same
environment as configure, so exec'ing a file is not possible.  We'd
have to use `.' or `source', that do already exhibit portability
problems (in particular wrt passing arguments).