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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: /bin/sh broken on AIX
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>>>>> "Mr. P" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor] <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

Mr. P> could you put this in the release notes somewhere?

Mr. P> /bin/sh hangs on running configure on AIX >3.2.5, and produces some
Mr. P> bogus on AIX 4.1.4.  The remedy is to use bash, for example.

Isn't there some simple way to fix this?  What construct in configure
is causing problems?

I tested running configure on Solaris with:
- /bin/sh
- ksh
- bash

and they all work just fine.  So there's more to it than just AIX's
/bin/sh being more ksh-ish.

Martin

