chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/17/88)
>In article <68616@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >>Yes, it was introduced in either the System III or the System V "make". I'd >>call it a "misfeature", not a "feature", since it breaks existing Makefiles >>when run by users whose login shell isn't "/bin/sh". In article <24946@ccicpg.UUCP> nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes: >I personally like this feature/misfeature, as it allows me to invoke ksh. I believe you misinterpreted Guy. The bug is that make *always imports* SHELL from the environment, not that it runs `${SHELL} -c[e] command' rather than `sh -c[e] command'. There is nothing wrong with a Makefile that says SHELL=ksh foo: ... ksh commands ... There *is* something wrong when a Makefile that reads, in its entirety, foo: echo cannot make foo in this configuration 2>&1 fails simply because the user's $SHELL environment variable is `menush'. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris