Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 10, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:

>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
Russ> Is there any way that the driver scripts could be generated
Russ> using M4 so that all the portability junk can be hidden, just
Russ> like autoconf lets the end user do for the configure script?

> That's correct, and that's what Autom4ke is for.  That's why

s/m4ke/m4te/

> m4sugar.m4 and m4sh.m4 were created.  But again, Autoconf is
> addressing portability issues on the user side, not on the maintainer
> side.

Why not address them on the maintainer side too?  Why not have our own
dog food? :-)

AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT (or however it's spelled these days :-) rules!

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