scp3.sh regression test fails if scp not already installed

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Wed Jul 27 03:49:06 AEST 2022


On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:58:30PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> (mksh/Build.sh requires the shell to have functions; some very
> old ash variants lacked them, but this is where I draw the line…
> GNU autoconf is generated so they can expand inline all the time,
> but for hand-written scripts, this isn’t tenable.)

This was true of Autoconf many years ago, but it hasn't been the case
since Autoconf 2.63b, released in 2009 - even that notoriously
conservative project draws the line there nowadays.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]


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