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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] running make with /bin/sh
Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:13:53 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:
> : It seems that make doesn't work with /bin/sh. It invokes subshell with
> : options -ec, but /bin/sh does not recognize the option -c. Is it a
j@uriah 345% /bin/sh -ec "id | wc"
1 13 148
I dunno which broken shell you're using?
> : fault of /bin/sh? And is there any way to run make with shells other
> : than csh?
Make shouldn't run with a csh at all (old Berkeley make's did it).
> As a matter of habit, I change all the SHELL=/bin/sh to
> SHELL=/bin/bash.
bash is at least as broken as ash (/bin/sh). And it's fat. :)
Our /bin/sh is now almost up to Posix. It's still a lank one though
(despite of this bloated line editing library). Unlike bash, it
doesn't have the kitchen-sink built in, and you cannot fry eggs or
cook coffee with it. ;-)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)