I've recently submitted a patch to automake so that it can use shtool
instead of the mkinstalldirs, mdate and install shell scripts. However, I
think that for shtool support to be complete we need to support it in
autoreconf as well, which I volunteer to do. To this end, I would propose a
macro
> > I've recently submitted a patch to automake so that it can use shtool
> > instead of the mkinstalldirs, mdate and install shell scripts.
>
> Can you please give us a URL for that patch?
The patch can be found on the automake-patches list
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake-patches/2002-Ju