From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 20 20:18:45 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.chuckr.org (picnic.chuckr.org [216.254.96.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA3937B424; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.chuckr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA04632; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:17:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:17:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Bruce Evans Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Brian Fundakowski Feldman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org| electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message