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Subject: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
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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