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David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> As a completely irrelevant side note: the autoconf documentation
> mentions that "false" is more portable than "true" since calling it
> returns a non-zero exit status even when it is not installed or
> built-in.

Ah, I like that ;-)  It is obvious when you think about it, and
it is so true but in a very twisted way...