Hi, I wondered too about the problem highlighted in #766048 pointed by this bug, and did not understand why $LINENO support was kept disabled. I found an answer in #582952 which is, from what I understand, similar to #766048:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582952 So, keeping $LINENO support disable is *intentional* so as configure *does not* catch dash as the default shell, because it breaks a lot of packages with bashisms. The bug highlights the reason of this deactivation, even if “long term” solution is to fix all the bashisms. So, as long as we have bashisms, we must have slow configure for everyone… So maybe this bug could be merged/closed? -- Benjamin Cama - Tél : 258
