Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:33:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender: eliz AT is
To: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gvaughan AT oranda DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT dcc DOT unicamp DOT br>, Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>,
        "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>, autoconf AT gnu DOT org,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: patch for autoheader.sh
In-Reply-To: <369CAB06.AC33AF89@oranda.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990113163151.19286A-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com


On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> > If /dev/null is verboten, maybe what Andris suggested with 1>&2 is
> > better?
> 
> If it works in that particular case, then that is good, and should
> probably be done.  However, as Alexandre pointed out, use of /dev/null
> in autoconf/automake/libtool/*.m4 is all-pervasive and if we try to
> change it, it will kill us all (and our families).

I didn't suggest to change the existing uses of /dev/null (DJGPP supports 
it).  I suggested to use 1>&2 instead for the patch we are discussing, 
and for it alone.