Confused section of 1.11 manual

[Reuben Thomas]

Section EXEEXT:

"Unfortunately, due to the change in Autoconf 2.50, this means you
must always add this extension.  However, this is a problem for
maintainers who know their package will never run on a platform that has
executable extensions."

It is unclear to me how the fact that you must always use $(EXEEXT) is
a problem for maintainers who know their package will never run on a
platform that has executable extensions. Sure, using $(EXEEXT) in such
a case is redundant, but why is it a problem? Maybe it is better
described as an annoyance? Or is there some other result than a little
extra typing?

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