Backspace acts like Delete, Delete acts like Backspace

["beddes@gmail.com" <beddes@gmail.com>]

A few days ago, I grabbed the emacs-23.4 tarball and built it on two systems,
a Red Hat Enterprise 5.5 system and an AIX 5.2 system (neither of which can
be upgraded).

So far I've found that my builds seem to be working perfectly on the Red Hat
system, and almost perfectly on the AIX system.

The problem on the AIX system is when I ssh in from a normal terminal and my
$TERM is 'xterm', my backspace and delete keys remove characters in the
opposite direction from what they should. *But*, if I instead first fire up
an aixterm, then run emacs, backspace and delete do what I expect.

Neither setting normal-erase-is-backspace-mode to 0 or 1 works.

Is there a way to fix this? Anything I can do to further diagnose the
problem?

My gut feeling is that I missed a flag when I ran my initial ./configure
before building on the AIX system.

Thanks!
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