Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:26:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950815102617.19796K-100000@minnow.render.com> In-Reply-To: <199508150850.SAA21739@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Bruce Evans wrote: > >> FYI: GNU-make use a similar algorithm > >> (first exec and if errno=ENOEXEC SHELL). > > >I think this is just to allow it to execute 'unlabeled' shell scripts, > >i.e. executable files without the #!/bin/sh comment. > > execvp() should already do this, but some systems (Linux :-) have a buggy > execvp(). The point being that it has nothing to do with the argument about make interpreting shell metacharacters. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 251 4411 FAX: +44 171 251 0939
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