Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-16 Thread Howard Chu
Paul Eggert wrote: Anyway, if you can strace it (or whatever the equivalent of that is, on AIX), that will likely let us come up with a fix. Well damn, after the reboot the problem seems to have disappeared, configure runs cleanly start to finish. (A colleague of mine requested the reboot,

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Likewise, I have been unable to reproduce any issues _without_ `sh -vx'. I didn't quite follow everything in that thread, but as I understand it the problem occurs only when one is using sh -vx configure on AIX. Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-15 Thread Howard Chu
Paul Eggert wrote: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Likewise, I have been unable to reproduce any issues _without_ `sh -vx'. I didn't quite follow everything in that thread, but as I understand it the problem occurs only when one is using sh -vx configure on AIX. The reason I was

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Eggert
Howard Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was thinking that, or ((set -o posix) /dev/null 2*1); ... Will give it a shot. Another possibility, which I just thought of, is to redirect stdin as well: (set -o posix) /dev/null /dev/null 21 Another possibility is to try set +o posix instead of set -o

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Cc:ing autoconf-patches; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/7105 ] Hi Howard, Again several bugs for the price of one bug report. * Howard Chu wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:30:07AM CET: login shell and $SHELL are /bin/sh. The significant failure follows.

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: because, for example, OpenBSD uses a modified pdksh as /bin/sh, and one of the modifications consists of not setting KSH_VERSION any more. :-/ I am at a loss as how to detect this cleanly, suggestions welcome. if test X${RANDOM} != X${RANDOM} -a X${BASH_VERSION+set} =