On 11/02/2014 10:52 AM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > @Richard: xterm does not set the SHELL environment variable if the shell is > not listed in the /etc/shells file (see "man xterm"). It only sets XTERM_SHELL > in that case. So, several solutions: > export SHELL=$XTERM_SHELL before running firefox building instructions, or > as you already found out, > SHELL=/bin/sh make... > or create the /etc/shells file (Chapter 3 of the BLFS book), and restart > xterm. >
This is interesting. Do you or any other editor think that Mozilla products should link to that page instead of having a note about prepending the SHELL variable to make command? Or better yet, should (both) Python instructions link to that page, given that Python errors when SHELL is not set? -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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