Bug#526738: gratuitous use of subprocesses

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> [2009.05.03.1019 +0200]:
> It's for these configure options
> 
> $ ./configure --help
> Program names:
>   --program-prefix=PREFIX            prepend PREFIX to installed program names
>   --program-suffix=SUFFIX            append SUFFIX to installed program names
>   --program-transform-name=PROGRAM   run sed PROGRAM on installed program names
> 
> It's generated by the AC_ARG_PROGRAM autoconf macro [0]
> I don't think it's that useful to remove that feature. Maybe some people
> actually want to use it.
> I doubt grub2 gets used on old 486 pcs or like that which are so slow that it maybe matters.

Ah, so this is *after* the files have been processed by autoconf, so
what's left in there is the autoconf-equivalent of NOOP.

Thanks for the explanation. Feel free to do whatever you like with
the bug report. ;)

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