[7183] in Kerberos
Re: AIX 4.1.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard Chu)
Wed May 1 15:48:25 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 1 May 1996 12:10:06 -0700
From: hyc@frisky.la.locus.com (Howard Chu)
In article <ragan-2504961455490001@elijah.computize.com>,
Ellis Ragan <ragan@computize.com> wrote:
>I am having trouble getting Kerberos version 5 to compile on an AIX 4.1.2 box
>with gcc-2.7.2. I keep getting errors during the configuration script like
>
>checking for stdarg.h... ./configure[977]: "${ac_cv_header_$ac_safe+set}":
>bad substitution
>
>I don't think this is a problem strictly related to my kerberos
>installation, but I don't understand what this is telling me.
>
>I really appreciate any suggestions,
This sounds like the bug in AIX's Bourne Shell with incorrect variable
expansions. I think if you explicitly use ksh instead, it will go away. In
my case, I rewrote the configure scripts at every offending line. (Because
at the time, I didn't realize that ksh would work...)
/bin/sh is a symlink to bsh. Delete the link and make a new link that
points to ksh, and try again.
By the way, I reported the shell bug to IBM, and I also submitted my
configure patches back to the FSF. God only knows what has become of
either of these items...
--
Howard Chu Principal Member of Technical Staff
hyc@locus.com PLATINUM technology, Los Angeles Lab
