Good question.

I also tried without the alias and with the standard sh: same result.

The alias was
	alias ls=ls -AF
or
	alias ls='ls -FA'
depending on which shell I use.

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Wenchi Liao wrote:
> Claude Marinier wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was checking out the GLib 1.2.3 distribution (from http://www.gtk.org).
> >The 'configure' script produced the following.
> >
> >	loading cache ./config.cache
> >	checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> >	checking whether build environment is sane...
> >	configure: error: ls -t appears to fail.
> >		Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Is there?

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