Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:55:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mark E." <melbrecht1 AT ibm DOT net>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: shell utils 1.16 question
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> I proposed testing $COMSPEC to the autoconf mailing list before 
> my e-mail outage, but this solution was also rejected in the mail I 
> read a few minutes. If I hadn't already deleted the e-mail with the 
> reason, I could have quoted the reason here, but I do remember it 
> saying something like the solution not being in the spirit of 
> autoconf. 

Please ask them to explain their reasons again, and this time make sure 
djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com is listed in the cc: header, so that people 
here could read the replies.

Since several maintainers of GNU packages were very happy with this 
solution, I cannot grasp the reason for saying it's ``against the spirit 
of Autoconf''.  (Unless quite a few GNU maintainers are also against that 
spirit.)

Perhaps what they were against was not the test for $COMSPEC, but what 
is done given the results of the test.  A discussion should make their 
intent clear.