Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Have you ever wondered why the autoconf maintainer bother to write it in
> extremely portable shell syntax? Have you read the generic INSTALL
> instructions that ship with many GNU programs using autoconf?
That has nothing to do with the question of who runs autoconf. Whether it
be the maintainer or the user, the end result must still run against an
unknown shell.
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