Bruno Haible via Bug reports for autoconf <bug-autoc...@gnu.org> writes:
> Simon Josefsson wrote: >> 0) Modify autoconf to continue to work in this situation without awk, >> replacing it with more POSIX shell or something else? > > Many years ago, Autoconf produced configure scripts that used 'sed' > for the job of replacing the various @FOO@ occurrences in *.in files. > When they switched to 'awk', it was for speed reasons, IIRC. I understand the desire to drop all the old code, but it would be nice to have something like it as a fall-back in case awk isn't available. > I don't think it's worth making a distinction here between Autoconf and > "Autoconf + Automake", since most packages that use Autoconf also use > Automake. I would appreciate distinguishing this, it helps to make it more clear where dependencies are coming from. OpenSSH is using autoconf but not automake, IIRC, and I think there are more examples. /Simon
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