Re: 2.59d on OpenServer

[Kean Johnston]

> Did you try removing the
>   BIN_SH=xpg4; export BIN_SH
>
> and the 'set -o posix' part?  Or maybe the part where it searches for a
> better shell to not begin searching in /usr/bin/posix?  (I think it was
I will try that and report back.

> > I'm not really sure how to diagnose this further. Also, I will not
> > personally be able to fix it, because I no longer work for SCO,
> > I just answer the occasional email such as this one :)
>
> Well, I'm afraid then if we don't find another shell or another person
> that uses the shell and helps out with bug reports and/or testing for
> the GNU autotools, then it's IMHO not worth pursuing.  Tim agreed we
> could ignore this, and really you two guys are the only reason I've
> been looking at this at all; if support for some not-really-popular
> (to make it an understatement) system is going to rot anyway, we might
> as well leave it that way.
Well, even though I dont work for SCO any more, most of my friends
do, and they will be more than happy to make any changes I suggest.
But I think there is an easier way to fix this.  bash is provided
on OpenServer 5 and OpenServer 6. UnixWare has a shell that works
without these limitations. Wouldn't the path of least resistance
be to simply set CONFIG_SHELL to /usr/bin/bash on OSR5 and OSR6 and
to /usr/bin/posix/sh on UnixWare 7 simply solve all of these
problems?

Kean
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