Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > 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. > > Changes in v2: > - Simplify how we generate the summary. > - Add a comment to explain ordering of the program path. > - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424-pks-meson-posix-shell-v1-0-45e06ee4b6ad@xxxxxx > > Thanks! > > Patrick Reviewed and looks good to me. It behaves as explained, although I don't know how to easily test the original error we've been seeing. -- Toon
