The logs say: checking whether wcwidth works reasonably in UTF-8 locales... yes
This means that the wcwidth replacement is not necessary. 2010-07-30 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wcwidth: Drop replacement on AIX 7. * m4/wcwidth.m4 (gl_FUNC_WCWIDTH): When cross-compiling, guess yes on AIX 7. Reported by Rainer Tammer. --- m4/wcwidth.m4.orig Fri Jul 30 21:23:05 2010 +++ m4/wcwidth.m4 Fri Jul 30 11:23:35 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# wcwidth.m4 serial 16 +# wcwidth.m4 serial 17 dnl Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ [ changequote(,)dnl case "$host_os" in - # Guess yes on glibc systems. - *-gnu*) gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works="guessing yes";; - *) gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works="guessing no";; + # Guess yes on glibc and AIX 7 systems. + *-gnu* | aix[7-9]*) gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works="guessing yes";; + *) gl_cv_func_wcwidth_works="guessing no";; esac changequote([,])dnl ])