Hi Peff, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:37:38AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > >> > I don't think that is the right thing to do. The point of SHELL is to >> > point at a bourne-compatible shell. On some systems, the main reason to >> > set it is that /bin/sh is _broken_, and we are trying to avoid it. >> >> But you're only avoiding it in the --tee/ --va* codepath. In the >> normal codepath, you're stuck with /bin/sh anyway. > > No, the #!-header is only information. When you run "make test" we > actually invoke the shell ourselves using $SHELL_PATH. My SHELL_PATH is not set, and I can see SHELL_PATH ?= $(SHELL) in the Makefile. Which shell is it supposed to point to? If you're proposing to use a variable that's only set in the Makefile in the test, you're not allowing users to run the test as a standalone- that's not a good change, is it? Ram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html