When building from git, ./bootstrap ends up generating (via automake) several Makefiles that set SHELL = /bin/sh. However, some targets contain rules that make use of bashisms. This leads to breakage when /bin/sh is something other than bash.
In particular, I am building from a foreign distro which links /bin/sh to dash.
Currently, this ends up breaking the build, the details of which I reported
to guix-devel in [0].
As a workaround, at the moment we have to force make's SHELL to point to bash.
The cleanest way to do this is probably as follows:
$ make SHELL=$(command -v sh)
since from within guix environment --pure guix, sh ends up pointing to bash.
Just for clarity, here is how this looks for me, currently:
$ git rev-parse HEAD
2708ae3d69b54d8323ca84fd9a7fb108a6ee96ba
$ guix environment --pure guix
$ readlink -f $(command -v sh)
/gnu/store/29jhbbg1hf557x8j53f9sxd9imlmf02a-bash-minimal-5.0.7/bin/bash
[0]:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00232.html
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