Subject: Re: bug#9249: Does Libtool 2.4 support Solaris 2.8?

From: Jeff Squyres <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 16:38:45 -0400

On Aug 8, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:

>> However, you can safely force an alternative shell to execute the various Autotools scripts by setting both SHELL and CONFIG_SHELL, like so:
>> 
>>    ./configure SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash<other arguments as usual>
> 
> Is it possible to set this through the environment as well ? (It might be easier for the build setup here to put this into the environment of ./configure when it is run. Have to re-check).

Yes.  You can export SHELL and CONFIG_SHELL before invoking configure to the same effect.

I tend to prefer putting them on the configure command line, though, because then they show up in config.log (i.e., the log of everything that configure did).  If you put them in the environment (vs. the command line), the config.log is potentially missing some important information about the configuration.

But it's just a personal preferance.

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