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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
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Subject: Re: /bin/sh broken on AIX
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>>>>> "Mr.P" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor] <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

Mr.P> Both /bin/ksh and /bin/bsh are broken on AIX wrt configure.  /bin/ksh
Mr.P> on 4.1.4 screws up on the export file test---but that may be fixable.
Mr.P> I'd rather look into this once you guys have autoconf 2 support in.
Mr.P> /bin/bsh (and /bin/sh on >3.2.5) loops infinitely on or after the
Mr.P> nlist.h check.

This is interesting news.

I won't be able to work on autoconf 2 support likely until after
19.15/20.0 are released because of schedule considerations.

I still encourage AIX folks to try to fix this, since I don't have
access to an AIX machine at the moment.  Try changing 
#!/bin/sh
to
#!/bin/sh -x

and re-running configure.  The fix shouldn't be hard.

Martin

