Re: using something like _AS_DETECT_REQUIRED in coreutils tests

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Hi,
Hi Jim,

[...]
> Autoconf already has a lot of code to detect and work around the
> idiosyncrasies of many shells, and I don't want to maintain such
> code separately from autoconf.  So can you see a way to get the
> required bourne shell code from autoconf into coreutils' test-lib.sh
>
> Yes, it looks like it'd involve undocumented macros, but for tests,
> that doesn't seem prohibitive.

Can't you (re)write test-lib.sh with m4sh and generate test-lib.sh  
from test-lib.m4sh (which is what libtool does for ltmain.sh)?

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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