From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:57:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/test-lib.sh: do not trust $SHELL
Message-ID: <m2k3vn9gyu.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nLLEF7wnUhF0JUAZVP6GG3KHmuYSDZLPS7uGCZPfhV3w@mail.gmail.com>

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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