Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008202315520.674-100000@picnic.chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008180131500.1746-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:38:05AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> > > > There always was ${SHELL} variable for it present in 'make', isn't ?
> > >
> > > To be honest, it really doesn't work right. This does, however :) This
> > > is a very simple change, anyway; some shells require special handling
> > > to set up, etc. If you want to make ${SHELL} work better... =)
> >
> > Do we want another non-standard feature to be different from the rest of
> > the world? F.e. GNU make use ${SHELL} for this purpose too.
> >
> > What is exactly wrong with ${SHELL} variable? IMHO this worth fixing and
> > not worth yet another incompatibility.
>
> ${SHELL} is undocumented and doesn't affect `make'. I think it is
> intentionally left out. `make' has a .SHELL directive which is
> extensively documented in the tutorial but not even mentioned in
> the man page.
>
> We certainly don't want a second nonstandard way of doing this.
I wonder just how many other things about make aren't documented in the
man page. Relying on the man page, I just looked silly when I told
someone that ".include" is the only way to include files (it turns out
that it works just fine without the "." introducer too).
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
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