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You can break the pipe and curl the file first, read it, and then run it. But I doubt that anyone ever reads through the thousands of lines of m4 that come with
by mprovost 5y ago
You can break the pipe and curl the file first, read it, and then run it. But I doubt that anyone ever reads through the thousands of lines of m4 that come with a typical program that uses autoconf either.
- db48x 5y agoIf the project uses Autoconf/Automake, then you can just read the .in files instead. If they include anything unexpected, then it will be pretty obvious (since anything unexpected will be a lot more complicated–looking than anything normal). But if they do include a bunch of custom m4 files, then you’re going to be spending more time on it than you would want.