From owner-freebsd-bugs  Sun May 10 13:13:24 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04816
          for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 13:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04804
          for <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org>; Sun, 10 May 1998 13:13:18 -0700 (PDT)
          (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org)
Received: (from gnats@localhost)
	by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA23167;
	Sun, 10 May 1998 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 13:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199805102010.NAA23167@freefall.freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject: Re: bin/6550 
Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

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.
 
 --
 Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
 phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
 "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message