The logs show: checking whether chown honors trailing slash... no
gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=${gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=no} I'm updating the documentation. 2010-07-30 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> chown: Update doc regarding AIX. * doc/posix-functions/chown.texi: Mention bug on AIX 7.1. * m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): Update comment. Reported by Rainer Tammer. --- m4/chown.m4.orig Fri Jul 30 18:44:35 2010 +++ m4/chown.m4 Fri Jul 30 11:28:42 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# serial 22 +# serial 23 # Determine whether we need the chown wrapper. dnl Copyright (C) 1997-2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2009-2010 Free Software @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ dnl Solaris 9 ignores trailing slash. dnl FreeBSD 7.2 mishandles trailing slash on symlinks. + dnl Likewise for AIX 7.1. AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether chown honors trailing slash], [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works], [touch conftest.file && rm -f conftest.link --- doc/posix-functions/chown.texi.orig Fri Jul 30 18:44:34 2010 +++ doc/posix-functions/chown.texi Fri Jul 30 11:27:56 2010 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ @item Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in @code{chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)}: -FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9. +FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9. @item Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one argument was not -1, but no ownership changes resulted: