Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis:
> A package I am trying to build contains the following lines in its
> configure:
>
> case `/bin/sh -c "echo -n x"` in
> -n*)
> case `/bin/sh -c "echo 'x\c'"` in
> ...
>
> Would it make sense to globally add a rule to patch-shebangs so that
> "`/bin/sh" is replaced? If not, how can this be handled?
If by globally you mean in gnu-build-system.scm, then I think that may
be too risky.
But in the package itself, you can add a phase that does:
(substitute* "configure"
(("`/bin/sh")
(string-append "`" (which "bash"))))
HTH,
Ludo’.
