Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:35:58 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <20031209023558.GX75620@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <p0600203fbbfad1c58d18@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200312090042.hB90gi9O026737@repoman.freebsd.org> <p0600203dbbfacb7b13bb@[128.113.24.47]> <20031209010104.GW75620@elvis.mu.org> <p0600203fbbfad1c58d18@[128.113.24.47]>
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* Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> [031208 17:18] wrote: > At 5:01 PM -0800 12/8/03, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > At 4:42 PM -0800 12/8/03, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > >> IMO, the best fix for this will be to change 'make' so we have > >> a way to specify an alternate shell (instead of the hard-coded > >> value of /bin/sh) for the 'installworld-ish' targets. > > > >Isn't the traditional way of doing this just: > > > >SHELL= > > > >? > > Dunno. Can you set that on a per-target basis? I think we > only care about this for the 'installworld' target, and in > that case we want to set it to the /bin/sh which was copied to > a temp directory at the start of the processing for that target. > Installword is done via a series of cascading targets, so maybe > it will be fairly easy to solve this. > > I certainly don't want the *user* to have to remember to > set the shell before typing 'make installworld'... afaik there's make syntax to conditionally do stuff based on the current target. -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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