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 `------------------------------' -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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