The change to require shell functions in configure scripts happened
circa 2009, well before the release of autoconf 2.69; if this was
causing problems for people we would have heard about it by now.
| New features need further testing. |
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-* Now that configure depends on shell functions, it is possible that
- configure scripts may fail to run on old platforms that lack a shell
- with proper function support.
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* Autotest parallel testsuite support is still a work in progress.
There are known issues in job handling under dash and some ksh
variants, where a parallel testsuite can hang or cause a 100%