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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:20:53 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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:  <20000817202053.A83828@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200008171550.JAA15746@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:50:34AM -0600
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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.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@nagual.pp.ru>
http://ache.pp.ru/


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