From: Eric Blake Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:09:22 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Remove historical inaccuracy. X-Git-Tag: v2.63b~10 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=996eb0c086f82492d7623d5105abdd450812e460;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git Remove historical inaccuracy. * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about Reported by Reuben Thomas. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 943545722..8f9cd54bd 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2009-03-17 Eric Blake + Remove historical inaccuracy. + * doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about + #!/bin/sh needing a space. + Reported by Reuben Thomas. + Recommend AS_HELP_STRING more prominently. * doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Reduce mention of hand-written help strings. diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index fe852fe2c..874d1392e 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -13691,8 +13691,6 @@ Builtins, , Limitations of Shell Builtins}. Some ancient systems have quite small limits on the length of the @samp{#!} line; for instance, 32 bytes (not including the newline) on SunOS 4. -A few ancient 4.2@acronym{BSD} based systems (such as Dynix circa 1984) -required a single space between the @samp{#!} and the @samp{/}. However, these ancient systems are no longer of practical concern. The set of external programs you should run in a @command{configure} script