Re: [PATCH] Ditch _AS_LINENO_PREPARE from _AS_PREPARE

[Eric Blake]

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > Since
> > _AS_PREPARE has invoked AS_PREPARE and required _AS_LINENO_PREPARE in
> > the parent, we know that there will be no $LINENO in the child script
> > unless $LINENO works.
> 
> This gives fewer forks in the initalization of config.status.
> 
> Ok?

Yes.  Although I'd like to see a little bit of documentation in the manual 
about the fact that child scripts created by AS_INIT_GENERATED may report 
$LINENO in relation to the parent's line numbers, depending on the capabilities 
of the shell.

-- 
Eric Blake