Re: A better autogen.sh

[Juanma Barranquero]

I was going to answer to Paul, but I think these comments by Eli are
all that needs be said, so I'm repeating them:


> There are ifdefs because of Solaris as well.  So what?  We try to keep
> them to the absolute minimum, and when someone points out to one of
> them that is used by DOS alone, I'm always happy to move it away in
> any reasonably practical way.

[...]

> Fine with me, but please try to be less unkind to maintainers of
> non-Posix platforms.  They are volunteers like yourself.

[...]

> A shockingly egotistic position.  MS-Windows is my main development
> platform for working on the bidirectional editing support.  Maybe you
> will also claim that bidirectional editing is not needed by "the rest
> of us", so my work on that is not important.

Agreed at 100%.

    Juanma