On 12/06/11 10:19, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > which will also very likely be in the next POSIX standard, if I'm not > mistaken)
Do you have a reference for that? That would allay some of my concerns in this area, moving forward. > I'm extremely reluctant to add yet more complexity to automake I don't see this change as adding much complexity. It should be pretty simple, and it shouldn't affect Automake much. So I guess the question is: how much complexity is "too much"? I don't want to bother to write and test a patch if it's going to be shot down no matter how simple it is. It is a bit off-putting to tell someone trying to install coreutils "well, you're going to have to install all this other GNU stuff first". (And suppose GNU make starts depending on coreutils?...) It's better to avoid these dependencies if it's easy, which seems to be the case here.
