Re: Emacs vista build failures

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

Eli> a typical configure script exercises many advanced shell features,
Eli> and so crafting a shell that could run it will need to implement
Eli> most of the features we have in Bash.  Such a shell will be neither
Eli> small nor portable, because a Posix shell needs quite a few Posix
Eli> features.

I thought the whole point of auto-tools was to work with any POSIX
shell.  So dash ought to be enough for that.

When it comes down to it though, given what else is required, I suspect
busybox may be the answer.  It should cover everything needed to run a
configure script.  And is GPL, too.

-JimC
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