From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 17 8:35: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gidora.zeta.org.au (gidora.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 339A337B68B for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31631 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2000 15:34:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bde.zeta.org.au) (203.2.228.102) by gidora.zeta.org.au with SMTP; 17 Aug 2000 15:34:51 -0000 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:34:46 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c In-Reply-To: <20000817191010.A83092@nagual.pp.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 12:38:05AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > > > There always was ${SHELL} variable for it present in 'make', isn't ? > > > > To be honest, it really doesn't work right. This does, however :) This > > is a very simple change, anyway; some shells require special handling > > to set up, etc. If you want to make ${SHELL} work better... =) > > Do we want another non-standard feature to be different from the rest of > the world? F.e. GNU make use ${SHELL} for this purpose too. > > What is exactly wrong with ${SHELL} variable? IMHO this worth fixing and > not worth yet another incompatibility. ${SHELL} is undocumented and doesn't affect `make'. I think it is intentionally left out. `make' has a .SHELL directive which is extensively documented in the tutorial but not even mentioned in the man page. We certainly don't want a second nonstandard way of doing this. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message