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Date:      Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:52:42 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Architecture <arch@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        n@nectar.com, bde@zeta.org.au, obrien@nuxi.com, nate@yogotech.com
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:  <20010301095242.C17292@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010301064454.A57115@spawn.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:44:54AM -0600
References:  <20010228103817.C20637@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103011710570.1753-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010301064454.A57115@spawn.nectar.com>

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[ moved to -arch ]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:44:54AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> 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?
>=20
> If we can't take it out back and shoot it in the head, can we at least:
>=20
>   #if !defined(DEFSHELL)
>   #define DEFSHELL 1
>   #endif

I'd like to note this was added by green so he could use ksh with make.
I myself consider it a bug, and don't really see how we can claim
POSIX(2) compliance with it included (because of SHELL's significance).

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wca

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