Update of sr #111044 (group autoconf): Priority: 5 - Unprioritized => 2 - Eventually Severity: 3 - Normal => 2 - Minor Status: None => Need Info
_______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #2: Thank you for (re-)reporting this bug. I agree that autoconf should make reasonable efforts to run in a minimal environment and, when the environment is too minimal to tolerate, it should give clear error messages. In particular I agree that neither `diff` nor `awk` (and arguably not even `sed`) should be an implicit dependency. That said, this kind of bug is very difficult to work on without concrete test cases and test environments. If you could provide us with both of * a minimized configure.ac that produces a configure script that malfunctions (meaning, neither runs to completion correctly nor produces a useful error message and halts) in the minimal environment you're working with * details of the minimal environment you're working with, in particular the complete list of available shell commands ("command names" as defined in https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_09_01_01 -- most importantly, both shell built-ins and external executables) and any cases where functionality guaranteed by POSIX.1-2001 is absent; f there is a straightforward recipe for constructing a matching environment from widely available free software, please describe it that would be super helpful and would probably get the bug addressed orders of magnitude faster. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?111044> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/