Zack Weinberg <panix.com!zackw> wrote: > - A linter for configure.ac and third-party macro libraries. > This wouldn't be any fun to write, because it would have to parse > both M4 and shell, *accurately*, but it would be valuable to every > user of autoconf. Fortunately, free versions of both parsers already exist (in Gnu M4 and bash, respectively), and extracting either one to enable its standalone use presumably does not require expertise in autotools -- only familiarity with the internals of the respective projects.