From 2467cad537ad521aeed5dc70c79d87a0d386c0ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 17:28:42 +0000
Subject: Set SHELL, if not already set, in order to avoid failure when `make
 check' is run through debuild;  dircolors would fail due to lack of $SHELL. 
 Reported by Sven Joachim.

---
 tests/help-version | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/help-version b/tests/help-version
index c96ca7e47..b3930626d 100755
--- a/tests/help-version
+++ b/tests/help-version
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@
 
 test "$VERBOSE" = yes && set -x
 
+# Ensure that $SHELL is set to *some* value.
+# This is required for dircolors, which would fail e.g., when
+# invoked via debuild (which removes SHELL from the environment).
+if test "x$SHELL" = x; then
+  SHELL=/bin/sh
+  export SHELL
+fi
+
 expected_failure_status_nohup=127
 expected_failure_status_printenv=2
 expected_failure_status_tty=3
-- 
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