Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:32:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008162130090.97352-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200008170025.RAA02822@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> Brian Feldman wrote:
> > green 2000/08/16 16:31:44 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c
> > Log:
> > Allow use of the ${MAKE_SHELL} variable to specify alternate shells for
> > make(1) to use. Setting it to "sh" and "ksh" are the only values which
> > work right ATM; I wouldn't expect "csh" to get you far ;)
>
> zsh should work though, or bash, right? Basically any Bourne-ish shell..
Should :) I don't know any major -isms of our ash-based /bin/sh, but
I do know that pdksh is one of the closest shells to true complete
POSIX compliance, and I've been running with that as the MAKE_SHELL
for a very, very long time -- and it even speeds up ports building
significantly!
Using zsh might be hard without adding something to turn off some of its
very weird parsing, and I think bash would probably work, too. As for
other shells, I'd place money on the Real ksh working for the job, and
that's about all I can really think of.
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