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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: "Lonhyn T. Jasinskyj" <lonhyn@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: AIX /bin/sh chokes on autoconf 2 configure script 
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Lonhyn" == Lonhyn T Jasinskyj <lonhyn@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

Lonhyn> Under AIX /bin/sh is not sh, it is ksh. If you really want sh
Lonhyn> then you need to use /bin/bsh. I wasted about half a day
Lonhyn> discovering this one time. Oftentimes cd breaks because of the
Lonhyn> intrusion of CDPATH or because cd tells you where it cd'ed to
Lonhyn> when it ends up "being smart" and using CDPATH. This often
Lonhyn> breaks the world.

I tested Sun's ksh, and it seems to work, so some AIX person will have
to investigate further.

Lonhyn> FYI (this is off our SP2 (AIX 4.1.4 machine)):

On the other hand, if you give me a guest account on your blazingly
fast SP2, configure will work in the next beta after that....

Martin

