Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:08:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <hartmut.brandt@dlr.de> To: Max Okumoto <okumoto@ucsd.edu> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handling of shell builtins in make(1) Message-ID: <20050524100205.W50725@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> In-Reply-To: <di8y25a4dz.fsf@oec-server2.ucsd.edu> References: <20050523153118.C28521@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> <di8y25a4dz.fsf@oec-server2.ucsd.edu>
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On Mon, 23 May 2005, Max Okumoto wrote: MO>4. Extend .SHELL: to allow specifing a list of built-in. And then MO> we should define them in bsd.sys.mk or some other config file. We would need to add yet another config file for this because make doesn't read anything if given the -r flag. It would end up having no shell which would be wrong. MO>This will allow people to add keywords for their shells, and MO>remove that stuff from the make source code. Hard coding it MO>in the binary is wrong. The initial shell (/bin/sh) must be in the binary because it must run with -r. I see no sense to add another config file just for the purpose of specifying the shell. What would that give you that you cannot do now? harti
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