Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:40:05 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make main.c Message-ID: <20020929122637.P39746-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200209290002.g8T025P0072694@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > jmallett 2002/09/28 17:02:05 PDT > > Modified files: > usr.bin/make main.c > Log: > Fix ability to use csh(1) as the make(1) shell. > > Sponsored by: Bright Path Solutions > > Revision Changes Path > 1.73 +3 -1 src/usr.bin/make/main.c Shouldn't this be -1 +3 to remove any such ability, since such ability is a bug? :-) The most interesting aspects of using wrong shells for make(1) don't seem to have been addressed: - POSIX requires the shell to be the standard one and doesn't permit the environment variable SHELL to affect this; it requires unusual handlng of SHELL which isn't implemented. - make(1)'s .SHELL variable provides much more powerful foot-shooting than the MAKE_SHELL hack, except at least the documented example of using it doesn't actually work (see the tutorial for the documentation). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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