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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 02:49:33 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@DE.FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6550
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>Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete
>
>State-Changed-From-To: closed-open
>State-Changed-By: wosch
>State-Changed-When: Sun May 10 09:11:56 PDT 1998
>State-Changed-Why: 
>The bug applies to all ash(1) builtin commands:

This shows why it isn't really a bug.  `make' can't be expected
to know about all shell builtins, especially nonstandard ones.
The bug is that `make' doesn't have a POSIX-conformant mode in
which it always execs the shell.  No one would use this mode :-).

Bruce

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