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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: AIX /bin/sh chokes on autoconf 2 configure script
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

sb> Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
>> (This is AIX 4.1.4.)  This has happened time and again with earlier
>> configure scripts as well.  bash seems to work.  Do we care about this 
>> sort of thing enough so that I should try to fix it?

sb> Yes.  The thought of bash as /bin/sh makes me crazy every time I think
sb> about it.

sb> (Still trying to work up the courage to do /bin/ln -sf /bin/zsh /bin/sh ...)

I don't think XEmacs configure will break, but it's probably best for
the primary maintainer to have a system that's not too strange. A
personal setting of SHELL=/bin/zsh is the way to go.

Martin

