current glibc vs debian sid

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:14:01 -0700
> From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
> 
> > Basically the semantics for
> > 
> > 	./configure some_alias
> > 
> > have changed heavily with autoconf-2.50 and later.
> 
> I think these changes clearly violate the GNU Coding Standards and are thus
> obviously a bug.

That subject has been discussed more than once on the Autoconf mailing
lists.  It's not clear to me that there is a GNU coding standards
violation, but if you see it clearly then I'd appreciate a brief
explanation.  I'm interested in the practical issues as well as any
coding-standards violations.