Re: automake 1.7.2 & DJGPP: tests and make SHELL=/bin/sh

[Tim Van Holder]

On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 14:19, Richard Dawe wrote:

> I am not suggesting that this patch should below be included. How can this
> problem be solved in a portable manner? Perhaps they could use ${SHELL} from
> tests/defs. Actually, why do the tests override the setting of SHELL on the
> make command-line?

My guess is that this is to be sure to use the system shell, and not
have shell portability issues in the tests just because the user
happened to configure automake with a different shell.
Still, the user is (allegedly) always right, so I don't immediately see
why using @SHELL@/${SHELL} instead would be such big a deal.

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Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>