AIX builtin test -h is broken, changes based on

Subject: [PATCH] 8297. Symlink stuff breaks on AIX 4 bsh
Message-Id: <20010102093747.A6F7.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8317

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 80a9f4b646..d5b354a29d 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 # $Id: Head.U,v 3.0.1.9 1997/02/28 15:02:09 ram Exp $
 #
-# Generated on Thu Dec 21 18:12:08 EET 2000 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Thu Jan  4 21:51:16 EET 2001 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
 
 cat >c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ true)
 	;;
 esac
 
+case "$newsh" in
+'') sh_c="sh -c" ;;
+*)  sh_c="$newsh -c" ;;
+esac
+
 : if needed set CDPATH to a harmless value that is not chatty
 : avoid bash 2.02 problems with empty CDPATH.
 case "$CDPATH" in
@@ -176,6 +181,7 @@ useposix=''
 d_bsd=''
 d_eunice=''
 d_xenix=''
+sh_c=''
 eunicefix=''
 Mcc=''
 ar=''
@@ -1084,7 +1090,7 @@ EOM
 esac
 
 : see if sh knows # comments
-if `$sh -c '#' >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
+if `$sh_c '#' >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
 	shsharp=true
 	spitshell=cat
 	xcat=/bin/cat
@@ -2059,7 +2065,8 @@ test)
 	echo "Hopefully test is built into your sh."
 	;;
 *)
-	if `sh -c "PATH= test true" >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
+	if `$sh_c "PATH= test true" >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
+		echo "Using the test built into your sh."
 		echo "Using the test built into your sh."
 		test=test
 		_test=test
@@ -2176,17 +2183,25 @@ case "$lns" in
 	echo "Checking how to test for symbolic links..." >&4
 	$lns blurfl sym
 	if $test "X$issymlink" = X; then
-		if $test -h sym 2>/dev/null; then
-			issymlink=-h
-		fi
+		$sh_c "PATH= test -h sym" >/dev/null 2>&1
+		if test $? = 0; then
+			issymlink="test -h"
+		fi		
+	fi
+	if $test "X$issymlink" = X; then
+		$sh_c "$test -h sym" >/dev/null 2>&1
+		if test $? = 0; then
+			issymlink="$test -h"
+			echo "Your builtin 'test -h' may be broken, I'm using external '$test -h'." >&4
+		fi		
 	fi
 	if $test "X$issymlink" = X; then
 		if $test -L sym 2>/dev/null; then
-			issymlink=-L
+			issymlink="$test -L"
 		fi
 	fi
 	if $test "X$issymlink" != X; then
-		echo "You can test for symbolic links with $issymlink." >&4
+		echo "You can test for symbolic links with '$issymlink'." >&4
 	else
 		echo "I do not know how you can test for symbolic links." >&4
 	fi
@@ -2224,7 +2239,7 @@ $define|true|[yY]*)
 				read filename
 				test -z "$filename" && break
 				if test -f $filename; then
-					if test $issymlink $filename; then
+					if $issymlink $filename; then
 						rm -f $filename
 					fi
 				fi
@@ -4138,8 +4153,8 @@ and I got the following output:
 
 EOM
 dflt=y
-if sh -c "$cc -o try $optimize $ccflags $ldflags try.c $libs" >>try.msg 2>&1; then
-	if sh -c './try' >>try.msg 2>&1; then
+if $sh_c "$cc -o try $optimize $ccflags $ldflags try.c $libs" >>try.msg 2>&1; then
+	if $sh_c './try' >>try.msg 2>&1; then
 		xxx=`./try`
 		case "$xxx" in
 		"Ok") dflt=n ;;
@@ -7121,7 +7136,7 @@ echo "Figuring out host name..." >&4
 case "$myhostname" in
 '') cont=true
 	echo 'Maybe "hostname" will work...'
-	if tans=`sh -c hostname 2>&1` ; then
+	if tans=`$sh_c hostname 2>&1` ; then
 		myhostname=$tans
 		phostname=hostname
 		cont=''
@@ -7144,17 +7159,17 @@ if $test "$cont"; then
 fi
 if $test "$cont"; then
 	echo 'No, maybe "uuname -l" will work...'
-	if tans=`sh -c 'uuname -l' 2>&1` ; then
+	if tans=`$sh_c 'uuname -l' 2>&1` ; then
 		myhostname=$tans
 		phostname='uuname -l'
 	else
 		echo 'Strange.  Maybe "uname -n" will work...'
-		if tans=`sh -c 'uname -n' 2>&1` ; then
+		if tans=`$sh_c 'uname -n' 2>&1` ; then
 			myhostname=$tans
 			phostname='uname -n'
 		else
 			echo 'Oh well, maybe I can mine it out of whoami.h...'
-			if tans=`sh -c $contains' sysname $usrinc/whoami.h' 2>&1` ; then
+			if tans=`$sh_c $contains' sysname $usrinc/whoami.h' 2>&1` ; then
 				myhostname=`echo "$tans" | $sed 's/^.*"\(.*\)"/\1/'`
 				phostname="sed -n -e '"'/sysname/s/^.*\"\\(.*\\)\"/\1/{'"' -e p -e q -e '}' <$usrinc/whoami.h"
 			else
@@ -7255,7 +7270,7 @@ case "$myhostname" in
 		esac
 		case "$dflt" in
 		.) echo "(No help from resolv.conf either -- attempting clever guess)"
-			dflt=.`sh -c domainname 2>/dev/null`
+			dflt=.`$sh_c domainname 2>/dev/null`
 			case "$dflt" in
 			'') dflt='.';;
 			.nis.*|.yp.*|.main.*) dflt=`echo $dflt | $sed -e 's/^\.[^.]*//'`;;
@@ -16434,6 +16449,7 @@ selectminbits='$selectminbits'
 selecttype='$selecttype'
 sendmail='$sendmail'
 sh='$sh'
+sh_c='$sh_c'
 shar='$shar'
 sharpbang='$sharpbang'
 shmattype='$shmattype'