Re: generated configure script doesn't work when "diff" isn't available

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Vincent Lefevre wrote on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:20:50AM CET:
> On 2008-03-19 23:31:18 +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> 
> > BTW: does Maemo contain awk?
> 
> Yes, though I haven't tested it. But the Zaurus doesn't have it
> (and there will be no upgrades).

Please do, if you can, preferably with a git Autoconf snapshot.

> > The upcoming release of Autoconf is going to use it for
> > instantiation of files nd headers, so virtually every
> > autoconf-2.62-generated configure is going to require awk for its
> > operation.
> 
> What does the current autoconf do?

It uses awk to create all config files and config headers.  That's
faster and scales better than using sed which it did before.

Cheers,
Ralf