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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2020-08-28 16:44:59 -0400
committerZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2020-08-28 16:44:59 -0400
commit77153965c69e364e8bbd6711a4d04bfe28bdbcea (patch)
tree563e706a1e57b7ecdbc178ba108338d078475d22
parent87a81f44c6a9e9dbb4b3b94680084edfea603a89 (diff)
downloadautoconf-77153965c69e364e8bbd6711a4d04bfe28bdbcea.tar.gz
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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@@ -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%