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. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf