Re: configure fails when PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/bin on Solaris 11

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> NOTE: this happens only on Solaris 11; on Solaris 10 /bin/sh never treats 
> "rm" as a built-in.
>
> So is this something to report to automake, as a "broken rm" case? Or is it 
> an autoconf because the script fails to re-exec under a sane shell?

This problem is well known and is because ksh93 as used in Solaris 11 
and OSs derived from OpenSolaris (OpenIndiana, OmniOS, and some others 
derived from Illumos, https://wiki.illumos.org/) are still using a 
ksh93 which has this bug.  There are more recent ksh93 versions 
without the bug but no one has volunteered to produce a more modern 
version for systems derived from Illumos since the shell is used as 
part of booting the OS and is therefore some painful work to update.

There should be a way to tell ksh93 not to use the built-in 'rm'.

Bob
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