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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 1995 11:04:26 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
Message-ID:  <9508141504.AA11190@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199508132144.XAA25996@localhost>
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<<On Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:44:06 +0200, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> said:

>      exit status of the command line to be ignored.  A `!' causes make to use
>      exec and not /bin/sh. This makes live with quotes much easier.

Very bad idea, and almost certainly contrary to P1003.2.

-GAWollman

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