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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:28:11 +0200
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de>, Linux Embedded Maillist <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:32:01PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:

>No, I'm talking about improving Autotools to handle some things better
>than they do now.  Passing the high hurdles required to become part of
>Autotools - especially compatibility - is part of the goal.

If you look at the sh scripts generated by autotools one is tempted to
just ship a small, clean sh, written in C89 with autotools, use that
and drop the workarounds.