Re: change in SHELL behavior: feature, right ?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:

  mf> so the question is, should gcc be making sure that the shell
  mf> scripts that use SHELL pull the value from configure ?  or is make
  mf> broken ?

Make is not broken: this behavior WRT SHELL is mandated by the POSIX
standard.

There are various things you could do to resolve the issue:

You could set SHELL=/bin/sh (or whatever) before invoking make.

You could add "export SHELL" into your makefile, thus explicitly telling
make to export the make value of SHELL to the child process
environment.  This is, of course, specific to GNU make but IIRC the GCC
makefiles already require GNU make.

You could add a setting of SHELL directly into the command script for
those rules where it makes a difference.

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