Hi,
at GitLab, we recently got a couple of bug reports about Git not being
able to find its shell anymore. The root cause is that with Meson we
have started to look up the shell via PATH, which may exist on the build
host, but not on the target host. We have worked around this issue with
a cross file:
$ cat >cross.ini <<-EOF
[binaries]
sh = '/bin/sh'
EOF
$ meson setup build --cross-file=./cross.ini
But this made me remember the report from Peter [1] that Debian also
faced this issue. So I decided to address the issue in Meson directly by
preferring `/bin/sh` over a PATH-based lookup.
Thanks!
Patrick
[1]: <20250209133027.64a865aa@xxxxxxx>
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Patrick Steinhardt (2):
meson: report detected runtime executable paths
meson: prefer POSIX-specified shell path
meson.build | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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base-commit: a2955b34f48265d240ab8c7deb0a929ec2d65fd0
change-id: 20250424-pks-meson-posix-shell-4969161025c5
