Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.60] testsuite: 3 120 failed

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> 2) On ancient systems, the old `test -f' was ``good enough''
> approximation,

But I thought the whole problem was that people were putting
directories named 'perl' in their path.

To some extent you're right, it's not a big deal.  It just really
bugged me that the old code was incoherent.  It also bugged me that
there wasn't a portable, sort-of-reliable equivalent to 'test -x'.
Now there is.  (sort of :-)

AS_EXECUTABLE_P is still a misnomer, since it doesn't guarantee that
the file is executable.  But that's something that could be addressed
latter, I guess.