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Re: carriage return line endings vs. literal ^M in status.m4


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: carriage return line endings vs. literal ^M in status.m4
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:36:30 -0600
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/5/2008 7:13 AM:
|> "pretty portable" may not be enough for autoconf ;-)
|
| It's very portable.  Really.

I agree with Ralf here - redirection of compound commands is portable.
Let's stick with the shorter 'if ... fi < input' idiom.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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