Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6550 Message-ID: <199805102010.NAA23167@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/6550; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG,
freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6550
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:05:36 +0200
In message <19980510204452.35461@panke.de>, Wolfram Schneider writes:
>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.
>
Then use gmake.
I've closed the PR again.
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