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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:03:09 -0800
From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com>
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To: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
CC: Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>, Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>,
   automake-patches@gnu.org, libtool-patches@gnu.org,
   mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, libtool@gnu.org,
   Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem[take3]
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Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> Bruce Korb wrote:
> > Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> >>This patch passes my test.  What do we need to do to get this accepted
> >>into libtool cvs HEAD?
> >
> >
> >>>+  newargz[0] = xstrdup("/bin/sh");
> >>
> >
> > This may not be the shell and there is no point allocating it.
> > It is fine to use it from static memory.
> 
> Okay, the second comment (use static string, not allocated memory) is
I wouldn't have mentioned the static string by itself ;-)

> easy enough.  But what's the best way to use "the shell"?  Do a unquoted
> replacement (<<EOF, not <<"EOF") e.g.
Yes.

Somewhere, buried in the configury stuff is an environment
variable named something like, "CONFIG_SHELL".  That's what
you want.  If it is not available, then imitating the techniques
used to obtain it by configure should be used.

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