> > Posix /bin/sh is not capable of running this configure and fails.
>
> What fails? What would it take to make this work on posix sh instead?
>
> The tests do require bash, but generally I think it would be preferable to
> not depend on bash to build.
Well I gave it a quick stab. This is not posix:
BLAH=$( ... )
BLAH=$(( ... ))
${option%=*}
${option%%=*}
${option#=*}
${option##=*}
First two cases are easy to replace by `...` resp `expr ...`. The rest
leads to external utility like sed. The dirtiest part of configure is
parsing the commandline arguments, but that could be replaced by
/usr/bin/getopts.
If it is appealing way of doing that, I can rework my patch and submit
it for consideration.
Thank you
--
Vlad