>>>>> "Andrej" == Andrej Shadura <and...@shadura.me> writes:
Andrej> Hi all, Yesterday I uploaded dash with LINENO feature
Andrej> switched on again, which has the side effect of exposing
Andrej> bashisms in configure scripts. Previously, they were
Andrej> obscured by the fact that autoconf requires LINENO, so when
Andrej> choosing a shell, it selected bash, not dash.
Andrej> After some discussion on IRC I agreed that it would probably
Andrej> be better to revert the change and upload it to experimental
Andrej> instead. I will try and do a rebuild of potentially affected
Andrej> packages to make sure we can fix them before I try enabling
Andrej> LINENO again.
Andrej> [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/582952 [2]:
Andrej> https://bugs.debian.org/842242
Andrej> -- Cheers, Andrej
I understand that it's generally better to fix bashisms in configure
scripts.
Is it possible to force autoconf to prefer bash for a given configure
script if it's difficult or undesirable to fix bashisms in a configure
script?
Yes, I realize that it limits portability to systems with bash.
And yet, there are a lot of systems with bash:-)
