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libtool.m4 makes the wrong shell (dash) run libtool

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Message #17 received at 10231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth <at> usit.uio.no>
To: Earnie <earnie <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 10231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Peter O'Gorman <peter <at> pogma.com>
Subject: Re: bug#10231: libtool.m4 makes the wrong shell (dash) run libtool
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:55:44 +0100

Earnie writes:
> 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.

Yeah, but the question is if Cygnus/MSYS ensure that when the Make
program invokes libtool it obeys the '#! <shell path>' line inside it.
Windows itself does not.  I assume yes, but I don't use Windows.

-- 
Hallvard

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