Re: trouble building gnu parallel 20111022

[Ole Tange]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jesse Alama <jesse.alama@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone else seeing this behavior when building GNU parallel 20111022 on Mac
>> OS X 10.7?
>>
> :
>> ./sem --fg --id pod2html pod2html ./sql > ./sql.html
>> Use of uninitialized value $cmd[0] in string eq at
> :
>> open3: exec of  -c pod2html ./parallel.pod  failed at ./sem line 3421
>
> One of the changes in 20111022 is using $SHELL. From the above I
> believe your $SHELL is not set. Is that normal on a Mac?

It is stupid if this small change makes it not install on Mac, so in
next release GNU Parallel will simply issue a warning that it will be
using /bin/sh as the shell if $SHELL is not set.

/Ole