On Mar 19, 2018, at 7:57 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 03/18/2018 10:39 AM, R. Diez wrote: >> I realise that this decision goes against Autoconf's portability principle. But even as a humble user, I am entitled to some freedom of choice. 8-) > > Not any easy way that I know of, precisely because it goes against autoconf's portability. I saw in the recent Automake release notes that there’s a tentative plan that Autoconf 2.0 will require at least a POSIX shell. Herr Diez, is this close enough to “Bash” to suit your purposes? That is, are you just looking for things like $() instead of ``, or are you intending to commit outright bash-isms? _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf