Gavin Smith wrote: > According to the comment in gnulib-tool, sh is supposed to be the > default, but it is actually Python: > ... > # The environment variable GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL can have four possible values: > # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=sh chooses the shell implementation. > # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=py chooses the Python implementation. > # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL= chooses the default (currently sh). > # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=sh+py runs both implementations and compares the > # result
Thanks for the report. Fixed as follows: 2024-11-12 Bruno Haible <[email protected]> gnulib-tool: Fix comment. Reported by Gavin Smith <[email protected]> in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-11/msg00101.html>. * gnulib-tool: Fix comment. diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool index 5cfc5bbb52..586464c147 100755 --- a/gnulib-tool +++ b/gnulib-tool @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ # The environment variable GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL can have four possible values: # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=sh chooses the shell implementation. # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=py chooses the Python implementation. -# - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL= chooses the default (currently sh). +# - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL= chooses the default (the Python implementation +# if a suitable Python version is found, the shell +# implementation otherwise). # - GNULIB_TOOL_IMPL=sh+py runs both implementations and compares the # results.
