Follow-up Comment #1, bug #56764 (project make): I get similar, but that's because my login shell is /bin/bash:
martind@swiftboat:~$ getent passwd martind | cut -f7 -d: /bin/bash martind@swiftboat:~$ ... while: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 8 2014 /bin/sh -> dash Make will default to using /bin/sh: martind@swiftboat:~$ /bin/sh -c "printf '\x00\x00\x8f\x60' | hexdump -C" 00000000 5c 78 30 30 5c 78 30 30 5c 78 38 66 5c 78 36 30 |\x00\x00\x8f\x60| 00000010 martind@swiftboat:~$ /bin/bash -c "printf '\x00\x00\x8f\x60' | hexdump -C" 00000000 00 00 8f 60 |...`| 00000004 martind@swiftboat:~$ I'm mildly surprised that I haven't resorted to adding: SHELL = /bin/bash ... to my makefiles. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56764> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make