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Remove historical inaccuracy.

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* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about
Reported by Reuben Thomas.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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2009-03-17 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Remove historical inaccuracy.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Portable Shell): Don't perpetuate myth about
#!/bin/sh needing a space.
Reported by Reuben Thomas.
Recommend AS_HELP_STRING more prominently.
* doc/autoconf.texi (External Software): Reduce mention of
hand-written help strings.

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@ -13691,8 +13691,6 @@ Builtins, , Limitations of Shell Builtins}.
Some ancient systems have quite
small limits on the length of the @samp{#!} line; for instance, 32
bytes (not including the newline) on SunOS 4.
A few ancient 4.2@acronym{BSD} based systems (such as Dynix circa 1984)
required a single space between the @samp{#!} and the @samp{/}.
However, these ancient systems are no longer of practical concern.
The set of external programs you should run in a @command{configure} script