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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:51:46 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>
To:        "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, 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:  <20000818115146.A19019@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000817202053.A83828@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:20:53PM %2B0400
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:20:53PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:50:34AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > In message <20000817191010.A83092@nagual.pp.ru> "Andrey A. Chernov" writes:
> > : Do we want another non-standard feature to be different from the rest of
> > : the world? F.e. GNU make use ${SHELL} for this purpose too. 
> > : 
> > : What is exactly wrong with ${SHELL} variable? IMHO this worth fixing and
> > : not worth yet another incompatibility.
> > 
> > But the original commit message said that csh doesn't work with make,
> > and when I login with a csh, I get SHELL=/bin/csh
> 
> With GNU/SysV make style this is desired effect, many makefiles started 
> with
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> because of it.
> But as Bruce says, this is not a case for BSD make which must use .SHELL
> instead as documented. In either case no MAKE_SHELL.
> 
Did you look over the actual change?  New ${MAKE_SHELL} is not a run-time
variable, it is a compile-time one and only affects the selection of the
default (compiled in) shell.  You can always use run-time .SHELL target.
Note that .SHELL only works in -j mode.


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