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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:10:01 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile config.h job.c main.c 
Message-ID:  <200008170810.e7H8A1E00999@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>  of "Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:38:05 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008170036230.97352-100000@green.dyndns.org> 

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> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:31:44PM -0700, Brian Feldman wrote:
> > > green       2000/08/16 16:31:44 PDT
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     usr.bin/make         Makefile config.h job.c main.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Allow use of the ${MAKE_SHELL} variable to specify alternate shells for
> > >   make(1) to use.  Setting it to "sh" and "ksh" are the only values which
> > >   work right ATM; I wouldn't expect "csh" to get you far ;)
> > 
> > There always was ${SHELL} variable for it present in 'make', isn't ?
> 
> To be honest, it really doesn't work right.  This does, however :)  This
> is a very simple change, anyway; some shells require special handling
> to set up, etc.  If you want to make ${SHELL} work better... =)

I don't think the argument here is whether ${SHELL} works right or 
not, but rather whether ${SHELL} should have been fixed instead of 
confusing things with ${MAKE_SHELL}.

> > -- 
> > Andrey A. Chernov
> > <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
> > http://ache.pp.ru/
> 
> --
>  Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
>  green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'

-- 
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