To make AM more compatible with other distributions, this is one of the steps that needs to be done.

This is a tracker for host dependencies which can be replaced for native shell built-ins or for already existing dependencies:

Not finished:

• file: maybe using Azathothas file bash script will suffice?

Mostly finished:

• column: Works mostly well with GNU awk, has extra whitespace for symbols. Doesn't work well with BSD's awk.
  Because of that, it's only used as a fallback if column is not installed.

Finished:

• realpath: replaced by readlink -f
• basename: replaced by native shell function
• dirname: replaced by native shell function

If you know more of this, let me know, list will be updated.