From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 20:44:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: BUGS: Remove mention of old shells lacking functions.
X-Git-Tag: v2.69c~24
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77153965c69e364e8bbd6711a4d04bfe28bdbcea;p=thirdparty%2Fautoconf.git

BUGS: Remove mention of old shells lacking functions.

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.
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diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index c8310e1b..6229c20b 100644
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ and use with caution an Autoconf with ``Important bugs''.
                  | New features need further testing.  |
                  `------------------------------------*/
 
-* 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.
-
 * 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%