From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 7:25:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 376B737B5CD; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 07:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12jjnQ-0000cp-00; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:25:08 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12jjnP-000Aav-00; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:25:07 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:25:07 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: commit MAKE_SHELL? Message-ID: <20000424152507.F86507@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000424020235.C86507@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> why allow csh in the Makefile when the setting of DEFSHELL it results in >> will not compile? Have I missed something? > > It's there to allow you attempt to shoot yourself in the foot more safely. > Too much shooting, still? I think so, but I won't argue if someone else disagrees, it doesn't bother me that much. It just seems a bit odd to have an option which will produce code which doesn't compile. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message