Subject: bug#19370: Acknowledgement (LT 2.4.4 regression (vs. 2.4.2))

From: Sergei Steshenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:58:54 +0000 (UTC)

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> From: Gary V. Vaughan <[email-masked]>
>To: Autoconf Bugs List <[email-masked]> 
>Cc: Pavel Raiskup <[email-masked]>; Jeff Squyres <[email-masked]>; [email-masked] 
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 8:49 PM
>Subject: bug#19370: Acknowledgement (LT 2.4.4 regression (vs. 2.4.2))
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>It doesn't seem like a great deal of work to translate 700 lines of perl
>into shell, fold it into bootstrap, and ship the result as autoreconf in the
>next release of Autoconf.  Then everyone can go back to running `autoreconf
>-fvi` and be done with the whole mess of wrapper scripts...
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>Cheers,
>-- 
>Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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Why to do this in the first place ?

At all, why to rely on shell scripting when Perl compiles on a gazillion of platforms and doesn't even require root privileges in order to be installed ? Furthermore, Perl is portable in the sense that properly compiled Perl tree can be moved to another location and it will still work - it is by design

--Sergei.