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