Re: 1.5.22 fails to configure on AIX 5.1

[Paul Eggert]

Howard Chu <address@hidden> 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 >/dev/null 2>&1

Another possibility is to try "set +o posix" instead of "set -o posix".

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.

One thing I'm puzzled about.  The AIX 5.1 documentation claims /bin/sh
is the Korn shell; see
<http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds5/sh.htm>.
Is that not true for you?

Also, is there anything unusual in your environment?  E.g., what is
the output of:

echo $-
set