Re: Possible zsh contention in pdfroff

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Stepan,

* Stepan Kasal wrote on Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:46PM CEST:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:19:52PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > [...] then this is still relevant for configure
> > > scripts: they may, on other systems, choose this zsh version over the
> > > presumably-defective /bin/sh (and also invoke it with that name).
> 
> well, I unless I missed something, Autoconf-generated configure scripts
> wouldn't do this: the candidate list is `sh bash ksh sh5'.

You are missing something:

|          for as_base in sh bash ksh sh5; do
|            as_candidate_shells="$as_candidate_shells $as_dir/$as_base"
|          done
*snip*
|          for as_shell in $as_candidate_shells $SHELL

> But the user could select /bin/zsh, so it's good we have NULLCMD=: there.

The user will have SHELL=/bin/zsh if she is running under zsh.

Cheers,
Ralf