Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-17 Thread Howard Chu
Howard Chu wrote: Well damn, after the reboot the problem seems to have disappeared, configure runs cleanly start to finish. (A colleague of mine requested the reboot, to clear up some "linker path problem" which suggests to me that we had some corrupted shared library or somesuch. I don't know

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, to

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 2>&1 Another possibility is to try "set +o posix" instead of "set -o

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-15 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 w

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

2006-01-14 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

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

2006-01-13 Thread Howard Chu
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> I guess the first noticable failure is in trying to detect the maximum length of a command line: *snip* It appears to completely ignore the "while" clause. To reproduce this, I'd need to know your login shell, the value of $SHELL, the command line you used to config

Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Howard, * Howard Chu wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 07:04:51AM CET: > Something in AIX's /bin/sh is misbehaving; the output from setting -xv > on the shell shows chunks of the script are actually missing. If bash is > used to invoke the top-level configure script, that seems to run OK but > t

1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

2006-01-12 Thread Howard Chu
Something in AIX's /bin/sh is misbehaving; the output from setting -xv on the shell shows chunks of the script are actually missing. If bash is used to invoke the top-level configure script, that seems to run OK but then the libltdl directory also fails unless you set CONFIG_SHELL to bash as we