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Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"

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From: Zefram <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx (Zoltan Hidvegi)
Subject: Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:54:02 +0100 (BST)
Cc: srb@xxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199608011459.QAA27663@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Aug 1, 96 04:59:31 pm

>For exactly that reason GNU make simply ignores the SHELL environment
>variable and sets it to /bin/sh.  I do not know how other makes behave but
>they should do the same.

I always set SHELL to /bin/sh explicitly in Makefiles.  GNU standards
recommend this too.  This is really an example of the now deeply
ingrained double usage of SHELL -- to specify the preferred interactive
shell and the standard shell.  Too many programs confuse the two
concepts and end up using $SHELL (zsh in my case) when they really want
a Bourne shell (/bin/sh on every Unix system I've ever heard of).

-zefram

References:
- Re: Procmail rejects zsh as being "broken"
  - From: Zoltan Hidvegi

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