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 References: <399EC343.75A93A8@cup.hp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008191351290.60744-100000@green.dyndns.org> <200008211435.KAA06425@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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. . . N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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