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Date:      Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:20:23 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c
Message-ID:  <20000821232023.A56397@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <200008211435.KAA06425@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:35:01AM -0400
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:35:01AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:57:45 -0400 (EDT), Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG> said:
> 
> > Building make(1) specially to change the default isn't wrong: if the user
> > is advanced enough to be changing make(1)'s default shell
> 
> ...then the user is totally whacked.
> 
> make(1) is *defined* to use the Bourne shell, period.  It's a bug that
> our make even allows the user to change this.

I've occasionally idly wondered about the possibilites advanced by 
recoding some make(1) targets when ${SHELL} == /usr/bin/perl. . .

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