Specifying which shell to use

[Dan Smithers]

Is there a way of specifying the shell to ues when running the configure
scripts?

I see that the default configure begins

#! /bin/sh

that specifies to use sh.

On my Ubuntu system, this is a link to /bin/dash.

If I edit configure by hand to start

#! /bin/bash

it works. If I leave it pointing to dash it fails to execute the code
generated by the intel compiler (icpc).

thanks

dan