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autoconf using sh, I need SHELL=BASH, how do I force autoconf to use bash?

Asked 2008-10-02T06:10:29.307
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I'm running autoconf and configure sets SHELL to '/bin/sh'. This creates huge problems. How to force SHELL to be '/bin/bash' for autoconf?

I'm trying to get this running on osx, it's working on linux. Linux is using SHELL=/bin/bash. osx defaults to /bin/sh.

bash unix autoconf sh
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Where is SHELL being set to that? What is being run with /bin/sh when you want /bin/bash?

configure scripts are meant to run anywhere, even on the horribly broken and non-Bash shells that exist in the wild.

Edit: What exactly is the problem?

Another edit: Perhaps you'd like the script to re-execute itself, something like this. It's probably buggy:

if test "$SHELL" = "/bin/sh" && test -x /bin/bash; then
    exec /bin/bash -c "$0" "$@"
fi
answered 2008-10-02T06:14:52.150

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