Re: test 209: bad CONFIG_SITE check fails with AIX 5.1 sh

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Let's not let this thread hang ...

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:52:08PM CEST:
> On 06/19/2010 09:21 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Seems we can't rely on dot returning an error status; this is the only
> > failure on AIX 5.1 with /bin/sh and current git plus one unrelated
> > patch:
> > 
> > + ./configure
> > stderr:
> > ./configure[1550]: syntax error at line 2 : `fi' unexpected
> > stdout:
> > configure: loading site script /tmp/tests/testsuite.dir/209/bad.site
> > ../../autoconf/tests/base.at:419: exit code was 0, expected 1
> 
> Thanks for the report.  I'm thinking that it might be best to just add
> something like:
> 
> AC_CHECK([. ./bad.site && exit 77], [ignore], [ignore], [ignore])
> 
> prior to the configure test, to skip this test on AIX; can you confirm
> whether that would be sufficient?

no, it is not, and I haven't yet found a simple way to fix it, with
admittedly only mediocre amount of testing however.

Cheers,
Ralf