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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2018 19:04:50 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r329064 - head/share/zoneinfo
Message-ID:  <20180209190450.GA85711@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrz4ph4YQnS6AvfKhtMMpAT74-7cnZcONfs2w-9r9tG_Q@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201802091550.w19FoXEb018181@repo.freebsd.org> <14002093.zLdzgIqnsv@ralph.baldwin.cx> <CANCZdfrz4ph4YQnS6AvfKhtMMpAT74-7cnZcONfs2w-9r9tG_Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:49 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, February 09, 2018 03:50:33 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> > > New Revision: 329064
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329064
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   We don't actually need env here, so drop it. All shells allow setting
> > >   of shell variables for the next command like this.
> >
> > Eh:
> >
> > % LC_ALL=C env
> > LC_ALL=C: Command not found.
> >
> > csh and tcsh don't let you set environment variables as a prefix.
> >
> > That said, if you try to use csh as the SHELL for make I bet many things
> > would break.
> 
> Right, all shells supported as SHELL for make. csh isn't on the list of
> supported shells. Your bet is right: a lot of things do break.

I don't really understand why we're discussing it: (t)csh, fish, whatever
are for interactive use *only*.  Scripts (and makefiles) should only be
written for standard plain POSIX shell.

./danfe



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