I wanted to see if /bin/dash was really that much faster (*), and found
several problems. Some of them I can send patches for; some are in
libtool which should really ditch its poor-man echo replacement; one is
worth discussing here.
The problem is that /bin/dash did not pass the "suggested" test
Paolo Bonzini gnu.org> writes:
> 2) The AS_VAR_APPEND technique, right now, does not give any speedup in
> Autoconf-generated scripts, as far as I could read.
It depends on how many appends are taking place. It matters more for coreutils
than m4, for example, because coreutils generates a long
> POSIX requires $LINENO (dash is buggy for not providing it).
It is.
> I'm committing this:
Looks nice.
Paolo
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