[ksh93-integration-discuss] [osol-code] "shcomp" autodetection in the { OS/Net, SFW } gates ?

[Glenn Fowler]

thanks
James helped clarify this off-list (at my request)

my original comment was in this (inappropriate for ON) context
* if the makefile must make a test then it should test the capabilities
  of the system and not the existense of a command in /bin *
as James and you point out, ON makefiles need no target-specific tests
because the target and its capabilities are implicit

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:23:13 -0700 Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:32:26AM -0400, Glenn Fowler wrote:
> > shouldn't the test be that exec(2) recognizes shcomp binaries?

> No!  As James Carlson pointed out, doing tests against the build
> system is fundamentally wrong.
...
> No autotools-like behaviour in ON, please.  Bad enough that SFW is
> allowed to get away with it.