@mitu Thanks for your response, @mitu! Sorry, I should have mentioned that the other project is irrelevant to the question! I'm running inputconfiguration.sh on a fresh RetroPie 4.7 image, so the configscripts directory is present and I'm simply dropping some new <inputConfig> elements into es_temporaryinput.cfg which were provided to me, then running inputconfiguration.sh from a terminal.
Did you mean /opt/retropie/configs/all/autoconf.cfg (I see this is what inifuncs.sh points to)? Mine is set to disable = "0" and the function is getting called on the last line of inputconfiguration.sh, it just doesn't seem to be writing anything to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch/autoconfig/.
Here's my es_temporaryinput.cfg
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<inputList>
<inputAction type="onfinish">
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/scripts/inputconfiguration.sh</command>
</inputAction>
<inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="odroidgo2_joypad" deviceGUID="19000000010000000100000001010000">
<input name="a" type="button" id="1" value="1"/>
<input name="b" type="button" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="down" type="button" id="9" value="1"/>
<input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="16" value="1"/>
<input name="left" type="button" id="10" value="1"/>
<input name="leftanalogdown" type="axis" id="1" value="1"/>
<input name="leftanalogleft" type="axis" id="0" value="-1"/>
<input name="leftanalogright" type="axis" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="leftanalogup" type="axis" id="1" value="-1"/>
<input name="leftshoulder" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
<input name="leftthumb" type="button" id="13" value="1"/>
<input name="lefttrigger" type="button" id="14" value="1"/>
<input name="right" type="button" id="11" value="1"/>
<input name="rightshoulder" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
<input name="rightthumb" type="button" id="16" value="1"/>
<input name="righttrigger" type="button" id="15" value="1"/>
<input name="select" type="button" id="12" value="1"/>
<input name="start" type="button" id="17" value="1"/>
<input name="up" type="button" id="8" value="1"/>
<input name="x" type="button" id="2" value="1"/>
<input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1"/>
<input name="pagedown" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
<input name="pageup" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
</inputConfig>
<inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="OpenSimHardware OSH PB Controller" deviceGUID="03000000091200000031000011010000">
<input name="a" type="button" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="b" type="button" id="1" value="1"/>
<input name="down" type="hat" id="0" value="4"/>
<input name="hotkeyenable" type="button" id="7" value="1"/>
<input name="left" type="hat" id="0" value="8"/>
<input name="leftanalogdown" type="axis" id="1" value="-1"/>
<input name="leftanalogleft" type="axis" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="leftanalogright" type="axis" id="0" value="-1"/>
<input name="leftanalogup" type="axis" id="1" value="1"/>
<input name="leftshoulder" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
<input name="leftthumb" type="button" id="8" value="1"/>
<input name="lefttrigger" type="button" id="10" value="1"/>
<input name="right" type="hat" id="0" value="2"/>
<input name="rightanalogdown" type="axis" id="3" value="1"/>
<input name="rightanalogleft" type="axis" id="2" value="-1"/>
<input name="rightanalogright" type="axis" id="2" value="1"/>
<input name="rightanalogup" type="axis" id="3" value="-1"/>
<input name="rightshoulder" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
<input name="rightthumb" type="button" id="9" value="1"/>
<input name="righttrigger" type="button" id="11" value="1"/>
<input name="select" type="button" id="7" value="1"/>
<input name="start" type="button" id="6" value="1"/>
<input name="up" type="hat" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="x" type="button" id="2" value="1"/>
<input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1"/>
<input name="pagedown" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
<input name="pageup" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
</inputConfig>
<inputConfig type="joystick" deviceName="USB gamepad " deviceGUID="030000001f08000001e4000010010000">
<input name="pageup" type="button" id="4" value="1"/>
<input name="up" type="axis" id="1" value="-1"/>
<input name="left" type="axis" id="0" value="-1"/>
<input name="select" type="button" id="8" value="1"/>
<input name="right" type="axis" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="pagedown" type="button" id="5" value="1"/>
<input name="y" type="button" id="3" value="1"/>
<input name="x" type="button" id="0" value="1"/>
<input name="down" type="axis" id="1" value="1"/>
<input name="start" type="button" id="9" value="1"/>
<input name="b" type="button" id="2" value="1"/>
<input name="a" type="button" id="1" value="1"/>
</inputConfig>
</inputList>