[ On Sunday, July 28, 2002 at 22:01:12 (+0200), Matthias Buelow wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: make and comments
>
> I have nothing more to add here; I've always found GNU auto* to be
> rather a restraint to portability than an aid.  Of course, that's
> also because many people just write autoconf/make/libtool scripts
> with unportable assumptions.

Indeed -- it's just doubly worse when the tools themselves write
unportable scripts and makefiles even when given portable input!  :-)

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