Hello Mark, * markhob...@yahoo.co.uk wrote on Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:16:19PM CET: > If the autoconf tool is run under a particular shell, the autoconf tool > may switch shell during build (via m4sh _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL). > > This causes a problem with package testing, because a test or development > machine may incidentally have an additional shell installed that is not > present on the target machine. By switching shell, the build scripts are not > being tested on the invocation shell, and the generated scripts may not > work correctly when transferred to a target machine. > > It would be useful to have a switch to prevent autoconf from switching > shell.
You can already do that, see 'info Autoconf --index CONFIG_SHELL': CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/foosh /bin/foosh ./configure Cheers, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
