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Date:      Sun, 29 Sep 2002 12:40:05 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make main.c
Message-ID:  <20020929122637.P39746-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209290002.g8T025P0072694@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> jmallett    2002/09/28 17:02:05 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/make         main.c
>   Log:
>   Fix ability to use csh(1) as the make(1) shell.
>
>   Sponsored by:   Bright Path Solutions
>
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.73      +3 -1      src/usr.bin/make/main.c

Shouldn't this be -1 +3 to remove any such ability, since such ability is
a bug? :-)

The most interesting aspects of using wrong shells for make(1) don't seem
to have been addressed:
- POSIX requires the shell to be the standard one and doesn't permit the
  environment variable SHELL to affect this; it requires unusual handlng
  of SHELL which isn't implemented.
- make(1)'s .SHELL variable provides much more powerful foot-shooting than
  the MAKE_SHELL hack, except at least the documented example of using it
  doesn't actually work (see the tutorial for the documentation).

Bruce


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