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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 22:05:36 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6550 
Message-ID:  <12270.894830736@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 20:44:52 %2B0200." <19980510204452.35461@panke.de> 

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In message <19980510204452.35461@panke.de>, Wolfram Schneider writes:
>On 1998-05-11 02:49:33 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> >Synopsis: make(1): shell meta-character optimization incomplete
>> >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 :-).
>
>gmake(1) handle some common builtin commands, e.g. exit and umask.
>

Then use gmake.

I've closed the PR again.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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