The #13182 didn't really help. The real problem

seems to be that 'sh' can in AIX mean at least three
different things, and we can't know which one it is
unless we export $newsh from an earlier run (and it's
the 'bsh' aka 'sh' that has the the broken test -h).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13188

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 62f4f31..65edddc 100755 (executable)
--- 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 Nov 22 01:31:19 EET 2001 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Thu Nov 22 07:43:52 EET 2001 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
 
 cat >c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ EOM
 esac
 case "$changesh" in
 true)
+       export newsh
        echo "(Feeding myself to $newsh $reason.)"
        case "$0" in
        Configure|*/Configure) exec $newsh $0 "$@";;
@@ -2262,22 +2263,43 @@ case "$lns" in
        echo "Checking how to test for symbolic links..." >&4
        $lns blurfl sym
        if $test "X$issymlink" = X; then
-               sh -c "PATH= test -h sym" >/dev/null 2>&1
+               case "$newsh" in
+               '') sh     -c "PATH= test -h sym" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;;
+               *)  $newsh -c "PATH= test -h sym" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;;
+               esac
                if test $? = 0; then
                        issymlink="test -h"
+               else
+                       echo "Your builtin 'test -h' may be broken." >&4
+                       case "$test" in
+                       /*)     ;;
+                       *)      pth=`echo $PATH | sed -e "s/$p_/ /g"`
+                               for p in $pth
+                               do
+                                       if test -f "$p/$test"; then
+                                               test="$p/$test"
+                                               break
+                                       fi
+                               done
+                               ;;
+                       esac
+                       case "$test" in
+                       /*)
+                               echo "Trying external '$test -h'." >&4
+                               issymlink="$test -h"
+                               if $test ! -h sym >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                                       echo "External '$test -h' is broken, too." >& 4
+                                       issymlink=''
+                               fi
+                               ;;
+                       *)      issymlink='' ;;
+                       esac
                fi              
        fi
-       case "$issymlink" in
-       "test -h")
-               if $test -h >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-                       issymlink="/bin/test -h"
-                       echo "Your builtin 'test -h' may be broken, I'm using external '/bin/test -h'." >&4
-               fi
-               ;;
-       esac
        if $test "X$issymlink" = X; then
                if $test -L sym 2>/dev/null; then
                        issymlink="$test -L"
+                       echo "The builtin '$test -L' worked." >&4
                fi
        fi
        if $test "X$issymlink" != X; then