Re: [RFC] Could autoconf-generated configure scripts start requiring a POSIX shell?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/2012 07:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> we haven't had any complaints about the
> inability to run the coreutils testsuite, and therefore we can assume
> that most systems these days have a shell with a bare minimum of $().

Hmm, well, but the former doesn't imply the latter;
most people run 'configure;make;make install'
without running 'make check'.

> It may be worth injecting a probe even into 2.69 (remember, for several
> releases, we probed whether shell functions were available, before
> requiring them).

Yes, that'd make sense.  Or into 2.70 if we don't have time to debug
this idea before 2.69.

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