Subject: Re: m4 port: return program name as 'm4' not '/some/path/m4.exe'
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 23:10, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> According to Tim Van Holder:
> > 'test -x'.  Because of that, autoconf was changed to use executable
> > extensions instead; this has (currently) zero overhead and breakage
> > on Unixy systems (as the set of extensions needs to come from
> > environment/config.site at the moment), while also easy to use for a
> > djgpp port (ie adding a variable to our config.site).
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but that would break a script called
> "do_this" (without extension) using the "#!/path/to/executable"
> feature, wouldn't it?

Not really, as '' (the empty string) is considered a valid executable
extension.

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Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>