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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:15:45 +0200
> 
> > Also, there are important packages that still don't use Autoconf.  One
> > notable example is GDB, where the gdb/ subdirectory is not
> > autoconfiscated yet.
> Hmm... from gdb/configure.in:
> 
> dnl Autoconf configure script for GDB, the GNU debugger.
> dnl Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
> dnl Free Software Foundation, Inc.

That's not a proof: the fact that someone uses Autoconf to produce a
configure script doesn't yet mean the package uses _only_ Autoconf to
configure itself.  Makefile.in, for example, is hand-crafted, Automake
is not used, there are all those *.mt and *.mh files, and some
subdirectories are not under Autoconf.  The same is true for Emacs.

> But if configure uses only $ac_path_separator, which would have been found
> as ';', it would not be able to walk the path if PATH_SEPARATOR is set to
> ':'.

That's not something Autoconf should care about.  If a user wants to
shoot herself in the foot, it's not Autoconf's business to prevent her
from doing that.

> There could only be a problem if someone has
> 
> PATH_SEPARATOR = @PATH_SEPARATOR@

That's what I thought was planned.

Anyway, I'm tired of arguing about this.  You've asked for opinions;
you have mine, and I stand by it, even now.  Since you are doing the
work (thanks!), you get to decide what to do about my opinions.