Subject: bug#24338: 24.5; compile-start has /bin/sh hardcoded for remote executions.

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:55:25 +0200

On Aug 30 2016, Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> wrote:

> `shell-file-name' is often wrong for remote systems; there could be
> another OS, for example. "/bin/sh" is POSIX and can be assumed to exist.

Actually, POSIX doesn't hardcode the location of sh.  File system layout
is not part of POSIX.

Andreas.

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