Re: [PATCH] Remove redistributed "Blame Lee E. McMahon" shell comment

Harmen Stoppels via Patches for autoconf - the GNU build system <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:09:39 +0000

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All good. Just wondered whether the comment was meant to end up in everybod=
y's
configure scripts, or whether it was an accidental shell comment instead
of an m4 comment. For example c04c47665cd57b5399f92ff5607544889d5bfda9
partially undid the long shell comment.

On Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 at 1:50 AM, Paul Eggert <[email protected]>=
 wrote:

> On 1/13/25 06:23, Zack Weinberg wrote:
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> > I don't have a strong opinion here but it actually seems like a humorou=
s
> > tribute to me and worth preserving.
>=20
>=20
> I introduced that comment in 2001, in Autoconf commit
> 4c359a43491c37203e08f2350cff1043a87ca18b.
>=20
> I probably met Lee when I gave a talk at Bell Labs in the 1970s.
> Although I don't remember him personally, given the overall attitudes of
> the people that I met I expect Lee would have appreciated rather than
> disapproved of the comment.