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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Per package /bin/sh selection
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On 4/7/20 11:13 AM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote:
> How can I change /bin/sh in a per package way using /etc/portage/env?
> I need to set bash some packages while I run dash for the system.

If it's the ./configure script failing, you can set

  CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/bash"

to override it only in that configure script (but please report a bug
first; configure scripts are supposed to be POSIX sh).