Re: Explicit interpreter paths considered harmful

[Simon Josefsson]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Here's a patch.
>
> Likewise, ‘pmccabe2html’ assumes /usr/bin/awk, but I’m not sure what to
> do here:

See the documentation in pmccabe2html -- the recommended way to use the
script is already using $(AWK).  So I don't think there is any problem,
is there?

>   - ‘gl_PMCCABE2HTML’ does ‘AC_PROG_AWK’, so we could substitute @AWK@
>     in there.

That leads to having a pmccabe2html.in which is somewhat annoying.

>   - OTOH, ‘pmccabe2html’ is typically a maintainer script, so I’d rather
>     remove ‘AC_PROG_AWK’ and do something similar to the patch below.

Will that work of invoked with 'awk -f pmccabe2html'?

/Simon