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Starting /bin/sh in output configure file


From: Mohammad Akhlaghi
Subject: Starting /bin/sh in output configure file
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:27:13 +0200
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Dear Autoconf developers,

I was recently trying to install some packages on a terminal emulator of non-rooted Android phone. The terminal emulator has installed all the Unix system programs in a separate directory and included that directory in all its search paths.

As a result, the command `/bin/sh' is not recognized when you run it on the terminal, but the command `sh' is.

Because of this, when you run `./configure' on the terminal emulator it complains with an error that it can't run `bin/sh' or later, can't build programs.

I was able to solve the second problem by defining `CONFIG_SHELL' which will replace `/bin/sh' everywhere in the output `configure' script. However, running `./configure' would still complain about not being able to run `bin/sh'.

This was very strange for me, because I had set `CONFIG_SHELL'.

After a look, I noticed that the first line of the output `configure' script is:

#! /bin/sh

The error was caused by this line. When I manually removed it from `configure', the configure script ran successfully and I was able to build, check install programs.

It would be great if this first line of the configure script would also check for `CONFIG_SHELL' (if its possible), instead of directly calling `/bin/sh'.

Thank you very much for all the wonderful work on GNU Autoconf.

Cheers,
Mohammad



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