On 11/02/2014 05:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Armin K. wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Hmm.  Maybe we should consider moving the BLFS page on /etc/shells to LFS.
> 
>   -- Bruce
> 

Yeah. That sounds even better.

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