autotools is not compatible with dash

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
bash, shell
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by locating the autotools plugin and the shell entry points it uses, then reproduce the issue with dash. Identify the bashisms that prevent POSIX-shell execution; done means the autotools plugin works under dash without relying on Bash-specific behavior.

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Description

Noticing after some testing that autotools plugin contains bashisms which prevent it from working on POSIX shell.

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