Re: please bring back program suffix for autoconf bin files

[Ben Pfaff]

Dan Kegel <address@hidden> writes:

> That's a nice feature of Debian, but unfortunately,
> it does not help in the case of somebody trying to
> write a shell script that must invoke autoconf-2.13
> no matter what distro (Debian, Cygwin, or Red Hat)
> it runs on.  For such a shell script, having a standard
> way to invoke exactly autoconf-2.13 is a must.

"must"?  You can't test what name it's available under?
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