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[PATCH] Run GIT-VERSION-GEN with $(SHELL), not sh.

From
Jason Riedy <ejr@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Date
Jan 25, 2006, 20:37 UTC
Message-ID
<10802.1138221471@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>

Alas, not all shells named sh are capable enough to run GIT-VERSION-GEN.

Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy <ejr@cs.berkeley.edu>
---
 Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
ba55c17e4888568cf17da569f95f11e27a26072d
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3046056..245f658 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ all:
 # change being considered an inode change from the update-cache perspective.
 
 GIT-VERSION-FILE: .FORCE-GIT-VERSION-FILE
-	@sh ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
+	@$(SHELL) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
 -include GIT-VERSION-FILE
 
 # CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are for the users to override from the command line.

-- 
1.0.GIT
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  1. Run GIT-VERSION-GEN with $(SHELL), not sh.Jason Riedy, Jan 25, 2006

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