Hi Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:36:53PM CET: > given that the autoconf etc. are written in perl > > Just for the record, it's automake that's primarily written in perl. > autoconf is a shell script (plus m4).
And autoconf uses autom4te under the hood, which is a perl script. Likewise, some of the other programs of the Autoconf package are implemented in perl, But since configure scripts are (primarily) shell, the gnulib-tool maintainer would most likely need to know about the shell portability quirks anyway; gnulib-tool in shell doesn't add much more to learn there. Cheers, Ralf
