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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: AIX /bin/sh chokes on autoconf 2 configure script
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

Michael> (This is AIX 4.1.4.)  This has happened time and again with earlier
Michael> configure scripts as well.  bash seems to work.  Do we care about this 
Michael> sort of thing enough so that I should try to fix it?

Of course configure should work with /bin/sh if at all possible.  I've 
done some testing on Solaris with ksh, bash, zsh, and those should all 
work (at least in some future release).

Martin

