snapshot build fails with /bin/ksh

[Will Yardley]

In article <agtu3v$esbu$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
 
>> configure: error:
>> ar program not found.  Please fix your PATH to include the directory in
>> which ar resides, or set AR in the environment with the full path to ar.
>> 
>> configure: error: /bin/ksh './configure' failed for lib/bind
>> 
>> jazz% which ar
>> /usr/bin/ar
>> jazz% echo $PATH
>> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
>> X11R6/bin:/home/william/bin
>> jazz% ksh
>> $ echo $PATH
>> /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
>> X11R6/bin:/home/william/bin
>> $ which ar
>> /usr/bin/ar
 
> ksh has strange PATH handling which causes the code to
> find the path seperator to fail.  Any non-absolute path
> element is treated as ".".

interesting....
just out of curiosity, why then would the configure script prefer ksh
over sh or bash when both are available? or is this not normally a
problem?

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