Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 18:50:49 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dfr@render.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: current@freebsd.org, wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS Message-ID: <199508150850.SAA21739@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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(). Bruce
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