[7187] in Kerberos
Re: AIX 4.1.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Jackson)
Wed May 1 23:32:30 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 1 May 1996 20:57:06 GMT
From: daniel@maya.oit.unc.edu (Daniel Jackson)
In article <4m8cue$17s1@frisky.la.locus.com>,
Howard Chu <hyc@frisky.la.locus.com> wrote:
>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.
I think you mean it's a bug in IBM's ksh ...
The default configuration on our AIX4 machines (4.1.1 and 4.1.4) is
that /bin/sh is a hard link to /bin/ksh. The Bourne Shell is called
/bin/bsh. We've seen a number of theses errors, particularly with
autoconf generated configure scripts. Switching to /bin/bsh doens't
always fix them, but switching to bash does.
Daniel Jackson
UNC Chapel Hill
Office for Information Technology
daniel@unc.edu
