symlink: Update regarding AIX.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9a11b279528f3d49f881467b8983d28800e819c5..e455808f371b5b209cd80a522a82ac54ae4b0226 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-07-30  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       symlink: Update regarding AIX.
+       * doc/posix-functions/symlink.texi: Mention bug on AIX 7.1.
+       * m4/symlink.m4 (gl_FUNC_SYMLINK): Update comment.
+       Reported by Rainer Tammer.
+
 2010-07-30  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        strndup: Update regarding AIX.

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/symlink.texi b/doc/posix-functions/symlink.texi
index b3d740f76e28fb4d737e1d6d30b3d41fa60fda59..b510c0467c340e7a3daec6914acc3fb1f94cbc79 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/symlink.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/symlink.texi
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @item
 On some systems, @code{symlink(value,"name/")} mistakenly creates a
 symlink:
-FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9
+FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms; however, the replacement
 always fails with @code{EPERM}:

diff --git a/m4/symlink.m4 b/m4/symlink.m4
index 3d14e692a7f312b96187d0d5af67cf75bcc3c212..fb619846076bcfdd0d90d629395e44029297adee 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/symlink.m4
+++ b/m4/symlink.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# serial 2
+# serial 3
 # See if we need to provide symlink replacement.
 
 dnl Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_SYMLINK],
   AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS])
   AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([symlink])
   dnl The best we can do on mingw is provide a dummy that always fails, so
-  dnl that compilation can proceed with fewer ifdefs.  On Solaris 9 and
-  dnl FreeBSD 7.2, we want to fix a bug with trailing slash handling.
+  dnl that compilation can proceed with fewer ifdefs.  On FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1,
+  dnl and Solaris 9, we want to fix a bug with trailing slash handling.
   if test $ac_cv_func_symlink = no; then
     HAVE_SYMLINK=0
     AC_LIBOBJ([symlink])