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Comment by jperkin

It also uses the "local" keyword, which is non-portable.

People like to bash the autotools, but they exist for exactly this reason - they already spent decades working through all these gritty details to ensure the scripts generated are portable. To paraphrase Spencer "Those who do not understand autotools are doomed to re-invent them, poorly."

parent jperkin 9 years ago

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