That sounds like a good thing to me! Somehow I was able to get autoconf (2.61) to use bash functions in my configure.ac. Was that a lucky thing somehow? Any chance of getting (autoconf < configure.ac > configure) to be able to use a Perl script if a macro finds suitable evidence of a modern Perl capability? -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf