linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] um: Makefile: use bash from the environment

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:13:54 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Yueh-Shun Li <shamrocklee@...teo.net>, Richard Weinberger
 <richard@....at>,  Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Cc: linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] um: Makefile: use bash from the environment

On Sat, 2024-03-23 at 17:44 +0000, Yueh-Shun Li wrote:
> Set Makefile SHELL to bash instead of /bin/bash for better portability.
> 
> Some systems do not install binaries to /bin, and therefore do not
> provide /bin/bash. This includes Linux distros which intentionally avoid
> implementing the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), such as NixOS and
> Guix System.
> 
> The recipies inside arch/um/Makefile don't require top-level Bash to
> build, and setting "SHELL" to "bash" makes Make pick the Bash executable
> from the environment, hence this patch.
> 
> Changes since last roll:
> - Rebase onto a more recent commit on the master branch.
> - Remove a dangling in-text citation from the change log.
> - Reword the change log.

Not sure I'd have added the change log here (in this case at least), but
anyway:

Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net

johannes