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Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Sep 21, 2012, 21:57 UTC
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> My SHELL_PATH is not set, and I can see SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) in the
> Makefile.  Which shell is it supposed to point to?

Inside a makefile the variable SHELL is special in that it is never imported from the environment. If not set it defaults to /bin/sh.

Andreas.
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