Re: Minor tweaks to path handling (re-submit)

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> That's what my patch did (as mixing FD and file broke on DOS);
Tim> Akim clearly stated he didn't address that here. *sigh* And I was
Tim> so looking forward to my first commit :-)

:) :) :)

Tim> Akim, how would you feel about my sending in a patch for autoconf
Tim> (the script) to remove the use of FD 4 (as this causes problems
Tim> when autoconf is invoked from perl (i.e. by autoupdate) on DOS?

Fine with me.

Tim> Since this breaks autoupdate, I think this is critical enough to
Tim> go into 2.50.

:)

Tim, I must confess I don't understand too well the last chunk of your
patch, that related to config.status.  Could you detail a little more?
Thanks!


Lars, I now understand what you meant about fd vs file.  Sorry.