Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Solving the "relink exe's" libtool problem[take3]

[Bruce Korb]

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.