[PATCH] emacs: Make the shell location configurable

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Tue Aug 15 16:38:27 PDT 2017


Robert Ewald <robewald at gmx.net> writes:

> Does the shell-file-name have to be bourne shell compatible? My
> understanding is that using "/bin/sh" requires a POSIX compatible shell, 
> bash specific shell scripts should be invoked with e.g. /bin/bash.
> I believe a POSIX compatible shell is sufficient in this particular case. 
> Of course, if shell-file-name is not POSIX compatible this line may not 
> work.

Yeah, I was sloppy. Hopefully POSIX compatibility is enough (if not we
can probably fix that). But as you note there's no guarantee
shell-file-name is POSIX compatible.

d


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