Specify shell in makefile

Summary:
The second variable "SHELL" simply tells make explicitly which shell to use, instead of allowing it to default to "/bin/sh", which may or may not be Bash.

However, simply defining the second variable by itself causes make to throw an error concerning a circular definition, as it would be attempting to use the "shell" command while simultaneously trying to set which shell to use. Thus, the first variable "BASH_EXISTS" is defined such that make already knows about "/path/to/bash" before trying to use it to set "SHELL".

A more technically correct solution would be to edit the makefile itself to make it compatible with non-bash shells (see the original Issue discussion for details). However, as it seems very few of the people working on this project were building with non-bash shells, I figured this solution would be good enough.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/1631

Differential Revision: D4295689

Pulled By: yiwu-arbug

fbshipit-source-id: e4f9532
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Jonathan Lee 8 years ago committed by Facebook Github Bot
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commit c04f6a0b4c
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      Makefile

@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
#-----------------------------------------------
BASH_EXISTS := $(shell which bash)
SHELL := $(shell which bash)
CLEAN_FILES = # deliberately empty, so we can append below.
CFLAGS += ${EXTRA_CFLAGS}
CXXFLAGS += ${EXTRA_CXXFLAGS}

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