[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Have configure set pactest options that it knows.

[Jeremy Heiner]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> I would really like SCRIPTLET_SHELL to still be at test run time.  My
> system pacman may have a different shell that the one built in the
> source tree.   Keep it defaulting to the configured value, but changeable.

Hiya, Allan: the autoconf tools (assuming VPATH builds work) already
provide everything needed to achieve your goal: just configure a
builddir --with-scriptlet-shell matching your system pacman. There's
really no need to ever have to type the scriptlet shell more than once
(as an arg to configure). Or are you scheming for a RSI worker's comp
settlement?
Jeremy