kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (08/04/87)
In a number of distributed software packages I have noticed that the Makefiles assume that '.' will be in the PATH of the user that does the 'make'. While most UNIX system default to having '.' in the PATH, system administrators will normally take it out (for themselves at least) for security reasons. I ask that Makefiles in future distributions not assume '.' is in the PATH.
dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott) (08/04/87)
In article <1815@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes: > >I ask that Makefiles in future distributions not assume '.' is in the PATH. While we're at it, it would be nice if they explicitly set SHELL to avoid problems on systems where incompatible shells are available (even ksh can cause problems on sh makefiles). -- David Elliott {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!dce