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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2001 06:44:54 -0600
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ar Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/as         Makefile.inc0 src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld Makefile         src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ranlib Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010301064454.A57115@spawn.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103011710570.1753-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:15:28PM %2B1100
References:  <20010228103817.C20637@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103011710570.1753-100000@besplex.bde.org>

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:15:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:12:00AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > > Given a static toolchain, you can build a static make(1) easily enough.
> > > 
> > > How, w/out a working make?  Are you expecting the user to build it by
> > > hand?
> > 
> > I fail to see what is hard about ``cc -DDEFSHELL=1 -I. *.c */*.c''.
> > If one cannot do that, I really do not think they have the ability to
> > recover from other brokenness.
> 
> That's too hard :-).  You should be able to read the instructions out
> of Makefile.dist.  However, Makefile.dist doesn't know about the
> DEFSHELL wart.

Ugh,  I wondered what DEFSHELL was for, and now that I've looked I feel
kind of ill.  Does anyone actually use csh for make?  Can we kill this
misfeature?

If we can't take it out back and shoot it in the head, can we at least:

  #if !defined(DEFSHELL)
  #define DEFSHELL 1
  #endif

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org

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