Simon Josefsson wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: > >> Right. The *.exe names are sorted, and test-acos is the >> first one encountered. > > Ah. > >> Is there a more functional shell on that system? >> If so, is it already detected and thus mentioned >> somewhere in config.status? > > checking for a shell that conforms to POSIX... /bin/sh > > On that system, /bin/sh is bash 3.2.49 from latest cygwin 1.7.x.
To accommodate "-" in function names would amount to using a POSIX extension, so we'd have to use bash. Can you confirm that those tests succeed when you replace #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/bash in the test scripts that use init.sh? If so, the proposed re-exec approach should end up solving the problem. Now we have to determine which replacement shell to use. One way would be to write something similar to posix-shell.m4 that tests for the added capability. Or perhaps just perform the test "live" every time we run init.sh.
