Re: About Section 7.2.2 "Utilities in Makefiles" of the GCS

[Karl Berry]

    Here's a quick writeup in a hurry of what was listed so far.

Thanks.  I proposed it to rms, with minor changes.

    Autoconf would like to move to shell functions in the not too distant

I agree that shell functions are ok.  I don't think the wording
prohibits that.

    virtually all systems have a posixy shell 

Yes, and that's fine for scripts which can search for it and exec
themselves to use it, but it doesn't help with Makefile rules -- or am I
missing something?  Those should still be least-common-denominator
vanilla sh, I think.

Thanks,
k