On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 05:18:25PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > What's the right way to launch the bourne shell from a makefile? I had > assumed the ${SHELL} variable would be set to "the right" copy > of /bin/sh (like maybe the one in tmp or legacy at various stages). It > appears that that's not the case, and ${SHELL} is whatever comes from > the environment, which can lead to using csh or bash or whatever. > > I see some of our makefiles use just a bare "sh" which seems reasonable > to me, but I don't want to glitch this in src/include/Makefile again. > The goal is to run a script in src/include/Makefile by launching sh with > the script name (as opposed to launching the script and letting the #! > do its thing, which doesn't work if the source dir is mounted noexec). >
I think BUILDENV_SHELL is what you are looking for. For this specific case, I think instead of '#!/bin/sh', maybe '#!/usr/bin/env sh' may be preferable. Glen
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