GNU bug report logs - #10231
libtool.m4 makes the wrong shell (dash) run libtool

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>

Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 10303

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Message #14 received at 10231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Earnie <earnie <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Peter O'Gorman <peter <at> pogma.com>
Cc: 10231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>
Subject: Re: bug#10231: libtool.m4 makes the wrong shell (dash) run libtool
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:31 -0500

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> Removing $(SHELL) from LIBTOOL makes sense to me, I don't know if it
> will cause problems on windows though?
> 

I don't think it should matter.  Both Cygwin and MSYS have /bin/sh and
/usr/bin/sh.  Without a POSIX shell libtool is impossible anyway.

-- 
Earnie
-- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd/
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