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| author | schnetter <schnetter@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac> | 2007-02-17 22:51:00 +0000 |
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| committer | schnetter <schnetter@17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac> | 2007-02-17 22:51:00 +0000 |
| commit | 0dec0e4302e3efd9e6d330f546adbca594250ecf (patch) | |
| tree | 9122b80f8753cf4a055417067c137f3223069b1f /lib/make/configure.in | |
| parent | 20e50d8110b0e1d1a375b3d56ebd75dee79cf347 (diff) | |
Prefer bash over sh. sh on AIX has severe limitations and cannot
handle long argument lists, which prevents calling ar or ld when there
are many thorns.
Add a comment describing why setting SHELL when configuring does not
work.
git-svn-id: http://svn.cactuscode.org/flesh/trunk@4409 17b73243-c579-4c4c-a9d2-2d5706c11dac
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/make/configure.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/make/configure.in | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/make/configure.in b/lib/make/configure.in index 5f461406..6fab4413 100644 --- a/lib/make/configure.in +++ b/lib/make/configure.in @@ -194,8 +194,10 @@ if test -z "$MKDIR" ; then AC_CHECK_PROGS(MKDIR, mkdir) fi -if test -z "$SHELL" ; then - AC_CHECK_PROGS(SHELL, sh bash) +# autoconf sets $SHELL unconditionally; we can only overwrite it here. +# The user has to set $CONFIG_SHELL to override this. +if test -z "$CONFIG_SHELL" ; then + AC_CHECK_PROGS(SHELL, bash sh) fi AC_SUBST(LD) |