Speaking as the /de facto/ upstream maintainer of autoconf, is there anything
we could do from our end to make it easier for dash to turn $LINENO back on? I
don't have a lot of time to work on autoconf at the moment, but this particular
issue is important to me. I'd like to see all the configu
Quoting Richard Laager (2021-11-10 20:16:31)
> Can we just enable LINENO in dash then, let the other packages FTBFS, and
> people who care about the packages that FTBFS can either:
in the best case, a package will FTBFS but it can also happen that the
configure script will just do something differ
"Andrej Shadura" writes:
> Well, we might make bash non-essential at one point. OTOH development
> systems are likely to have it anyway.
A compromise could be to make it build-essential instead.
- ilmari
On 11/10/21 12:50 PM, Andrej Shadura wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2021, at 19:18, Sam Hartman wrote:
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 bashism
> "Andrej" == Andrej Shadura 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
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