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According to Paolo Bonzini on 11/12/2008 4:42 AM:
>>> Hmm, you were right: we are still buggy. M4sh should be the one
>>> guaranteeing
>>> that we do SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}, and not autoconf/general.m4.
>>> Otherwise, AS_INIT_GENERATED is broken when using m4sh but not autoconf,
>>> and
>>> when CONFIG_SHELL is not set.
>
> I fail to understand this. It is AS_INIT_GENERATED that writes
>
> SHELL=\${CONFIG_SHELL-$SHELL}
>
> to config.status.
But who writes it to configure? Right now, AC_INIT. But it _should_ be
AS_INIT, otherwise, AS_INIT_GENERATED only works if you call AC_INIT
(which is the wrong dependency).
>> AFAIK it is not easy to portably find out which shell we're under.
>
> Throwing this in the air: what about the entry value of $_ at the top of
> the script?
Not always present and not necessarily reliable, but it might be helpful.
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Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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