Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:44:52 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 Message-ID: <19980510204452.35461@panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199805101649.CAA14725@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Mon, May 11, 1998 at 02:49:33AM %2B1000 References: <199805101649.CAA14725@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On 1998-05-11 02:49:33 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete
> >The bug applies to all ash(1) builtin commands:
>
> This shows why it isn't really a bug. `make' can't be expected
> to know about all shell builtins, especially nonstandard ones.
> The bug is that `make' doesn't have a POSIX-conformant mode in
> which it always execs the shell. No one would use this mode :-).
gmake(1) handle some common builtin commands, e.g. exit and umask.
wosch@freefall <11:29:00> [~/tmp/5] 543
bash$ cat Makefile
all:
exit 0
wosch@freefall <11:29:02> [~/tmp/5] 544
bash$ make
exit 0
exit: not found
*** Error code 1
Stop.
wosch@freefall <11:29:06> [~/tmp/5] 545
bash$ gmake
exit 0
wosch@freefall <11:29:08> [~/tmp/5] 546
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