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Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash

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Message #8 received at 40641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com
Cc: 40641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40641: Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:21:49 +0200

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 06:06:25PM +0900, elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> When building from git, ./bootstrap ends up generating (via automake) several
> Makefiles that set SHELL = /bin/sh. However, some targets contain rules that
> make use of bashisms. This leads to breakage when /bin/sh is something other
> than bash.
> 
> In particular, I am building from a foreign distro which links /bin/sh to dash.
> Currently, this ends up breaking the build, the details of which I reported
> to guix-devel in [0].

<https://bugs.gnu.org/25258> is related.  Your workaround may be more welcome.

Regards,
Florian

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