From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <636733be-5009-4311-97ab-dc81634dbd06@p15g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> References: <06a0be10-d05e-47f4-bebf-c9d9512de2b8@q14g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> <636733be-5009-4311-97ab-dc81634dbd06@p15g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:15:39 +0100 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] Two suggestions for ape (was: egrep for Plan9) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 902937a4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Since the purpose of ape is to emulate the environment configure is > expected to run in, and such mismatch has been found, it migh be > easier to fix ape than to convince maintaners of autoconf to fix on > their side... Why are you so sure they wouldn't fix it? Have you or has anybody you know tried something like this already?