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Re: making script executable?

From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
To: automake at gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:25:35 +0100
Subject: Re: making script executable?
References: <2002-12-01-20-50-04+1330+duret_g@lrde.epita.fr><Pine.SOL.3.96.1030203171801.16364A-100000@bitter.mit.edu><20030203233857.GE27121@phobos.fs.tum.de><20030204043449.GA18990@misery.proulx.com>

>>> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

 Bob> Simon Richter wrote:
 >> 
 >> $(SHELL) <your script here> ?

 Bob> Does that mean that a SHELL=/bin/csh user will run the script with csh
 Bob> and a SHELL=/bin/zsh user will run the shell with zsh?  

Nope.  The $(SHELL) Makefile variable is AC_SUBST'ed by
./configure, fortunately it doesn't come from the environment.

(Still there are broken make implementations that will use the
SHELL envvar when run as `make -e'.  Details in the Autoconf
manual.)
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

References:
- making script executable?
  - From: mcmahill
- Re: making script executable?
  - From: Simon Richter
- Re: making script executable?
  - From: Bob Proulx

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