Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 17:13:36 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS Message-ID: <199508141513.RAA12434@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <9508141504.AA11190@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199508132144.XAA25996@localhost> <9508141504.AA11190@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman writes:
><<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.
What says P1003.2 about /bin/sh?
Note: the following example don't use /bin/sh in BSD make, our make
use execv(3)
foo:
date
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