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. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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