Re: Crash in 'find_and_set_default_shell()'

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2022-05-10 at 15:03 +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> SHELL := env "PATH=$(PATH)" /bin/bash

Well, I dunno.  The problem is that at some point you have to choose
which command to use to invoke something.  The SHELL variable is
intended to contain a shell program that make will exec().  Here you're
saying that either (a) make has to invoke a shell which will invoke the
SHELL command (and how does it choose which shell?  It clearly can't
use the SHELL variable...), or else (b) make has to parse this string
and break it up into words that it can use to call exec() without going
through a shell: normally make leaves this sort of command parsing up
to the shell.

I will say that this does work as expected and doesn't throw an error
with the latest GNU make Git version, on GNU/Linux.