Re: [CFT] Shell functionization patch (if you don't know what that means, it's faster Autoconf and leaner configure scripts)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Tom Browder wrote:
> Popularity shouldn't be a metric here, in that case sh would would lose, too.

:-)

> Anyhow, I would like to be able to use Perl (or any other language) if
> it is found during the configure process.

Nothing prevents a configure script (written in sh) from using scraps 
of Perl.  Hopefully the script would check that Perl exists before 
actually using it.

Bob
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