Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:17:00 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Max Okumoto <okumoto@ucsd.edu> Subject: Re: Handling of shell builtins in make(1) Message-ID: <20050524081700.GF95023@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050524100205.W50725@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <20050523153118.C28521@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <di8y25a4dz.fsf@oec-server2.ucsd.edu> <20050524100205.W50725@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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--WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:08:19AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2005, Max Okumoto wrote: >=20 > MO>4. Extend .SHELL: to allow specifing a list of built-in. And then > MO> we should define them in bsd.sys.mk or some other config file. >=20 > We would need to add yet another config file for this because make > doesn't read anything if given the -r flag. It would end up having > no shell which would be wrong. Or, add a way to query /bin/sh for the list of builtins (sh --show-builtins) and use that in the absence of an explicit .SHELL. > MO>This will allow people to add keywords for their shells, and > MO>remove that stuff from the make source code. Hard coding it > MO>in the binary is wrong. >=20 > The initial shell (/bin/sh) must be in the binary because it must run with > -r. I see no sense to add another config file just for the purpose > of specifying the shell. What would that give you that you cannot do now? I think it's more that hardcoding a list of builtins is undesirable. --Stijn --=20 "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Marcus Brigstocke (http://www.marcusbrigstocke.com/pacman.asp) --WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCkuL8Y3r/tLQmfWcRAsSjAKCqPUQFSwSpvMtibQhpHYzQoZP4xgCfZwy5 v3bu21CQ8xEz317dhJBPdCw= =MB+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WplhKdTI2c8ulnbP--
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