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Re: about requiring Perl 5.6 in Automake 1.9
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at gnu dot org>
- Cc: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 01:50:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: about requiring Perl 5.6 in Automake 1.9
- References: <2004-02-06-23-29-09+16254+adl@gnu.org> <4024243E.43C51E14@gnu.org>
Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> writes:
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why this would be a very bad idea?
>
> It is inconsistent? The auto* tools (viz. autoconf) still
> assumes a shell that has no functions. This makes the config
> script incredibly larger and slower than necessary. That
> annoys me greatly, far beyond this wart. Lobby for that change
> first!!
The configure script will be run on the user's system, whereas automake
runs on the developer's system. You can expect that a developer upgrades
his system from time to time, but you still want to be able to configure
and build a package on an old system.
Andreas.
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