Thorsten Behrens wrote:

> Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> But what about defaulting to the current login shell?
>>> People who might want tcsh already might use it as login shell
>>
>> I would vote for getting rid of tcsh-support in the build environment  
>> completely, sooner or later.  Making the shell used within the build  
>> default to bash is a move in that direction, while making it depend on  
>> $SHELL is not.
>>
> I wholeheartedly agree with Stephan. tcsh sucks large rocks, e.g.
> when it comes to output redirection; and the build system is complex
> enough supporting _one_ shell already ...

Yes, if possible (means: if no platform is know where using bash is not
possible) let's drop tcsh support.

But if we don't do it: please at least let configure always generate
just one shell script, not always both of them.

Regards,
Mathias

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