On 02 Dec 2023 15:09, Karl Berry wrote: > very extensive "Portable Shell Programming" chapter: > > https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.71/html_node/Portable-Shell.html > > I know. The Autoconf manual already describes this issue in detail. > The point of the brief mention in the Automake manual is because it is > precisely the place and the problem that are rather likely to come up > in practice. > > I see I failed to link to the Autoconf node, though. I'll add that. -k
breadcrumbs in the automake manual is ok before tossing them to autoconf, but i would make it more brief than we have now. like drop references to the POSIX state and just leave it as discouraged in favor of the macros for portability. -mike
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