Re: M4sh tests 77 and 78 vs /bin/sh -> dash

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 3/23/20 1:20 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Autotools and C still have their niche, and that niche is code that
> > _does_  need to be extremely cross platform.
>
> If cross-platform is the main goal, Java is often a better choice these days. 
> :-)

Python 2.7.17 seems to be pretty portable for the moment. :-)

> It would be fine to add an option (default off) to make Autoconf pickier 
> about the shell, and letting people try the option who want to try it. We 
> coould change the default later as experience rolls in.

It would be useful if Automake's 'distcheck' would arrange to execute 
configure under different available shells to make sure that the 
results are the same.

Bob
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