Hi Peff, On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Jeff King wrote: > @@ -2350,6 +2357,7 @@ GIT-LDFLAGS: FORCE > # and the first level quoting from the shell that runs "echo". > GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS: FORCE > @echo SHELL_PATH=\''$(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH_SQ))'\' >$@+ > + @echo TEST_SHELL_PATH=\''$(subst ','\'',$(TEST_SHELL_PATH_SQ))'\' >$@+ Do we really want to force the test shell path to be hardcoded at runtime? It may be a better idea not to write this into GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS. Or alternatively we could prefix the assignment by test -n "$TEST_SHELL_PATH" || or use the pattern TEST_SHELL_PATH="${TEST_SHELL_PATH:-[...]}" Ciao, Dscho