On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:10:30PM +0100, Beno??t Th??baudeau wrote:

> make never uses the SHELL variable from the environment. Instead, it
> uses /bin/sh, or the value assigned to the SHELL variable by the Makefile. 
> This
> makes the export of the SHELL variable useless for sub-makes (but still useful
> for the environment of recipes). However, we want all makes to use the same
> shell.
> 
> This patch fixes this issue by moving the SHELL variable setup and export to 
> the
> top config.mk, so that all Makefile-s including it use the same shell.
> 
> Since BASH is used by default, this makes it possible to use things
> like 'echo -e ...' in sub-makes, which would otherwise fail e.g. with /bin/sh
> symlinked to /bin/dash on Ubuntu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Beno??t Th??baudeau <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]>

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Tom

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