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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Steve March <smarch@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com>,
        sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]),
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Subject: Re: /bin/sh broken on AIX 
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>>>>> "Valdis" == Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> writes:

Valdis> On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 10:43:15 CST, Steve March said:
>> /bin/sh is linked to ksh on AIX (stupid though that may seem).
>> /bin/bsh is the REAL Bourne shell.  Does /bin/bsh work for you?  If

Valdis> 1) The AIX sh/bsh/ksh "stupidity" isn't IBM's fault.  Apparently, POSIX
Valdis> requires that "/bin/sh" point to a POSIX (read: ksh) shell.  Configure
Valdis> trips over the few places where bsh and ksh differ.

As pointed out earlier, Sun ksh works fine.  AIXers of the world,
please provide more info on what exactly is broken with configure.

Also, HP-UX 10 made a similar change to POSIXify their /bin/sh.  What
happens when configure runs there?

Martin

