Hi Eric, > > ! gnulib-tool (GNU $package $date)$version > > Oops - some over-active copy-n-paste.
Oh, indeed :-) > And this falls foul of autoconf's advice: > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Shell-Functions > | Inside a function, IRIX sh sets `$0' to the function name. Confirmed with IRIX 6.5 /bin/sh. > OK to check in this followup? Thanks for cleaning up all this. I would like if you could mention the newly added implicit parameter 'progname' in comments for all functions which need it, directly or indirectly: # Input: # - progname name of this program It is not possible to maintain a shell script with dozens of functions without keeping track of which function uses which variable and which has side effects on which variables. Bruno
