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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <496q91$37b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30B287C0.41C67EA6@adam.kaist.ac.kr> <DIG6Jn.Dz5@ritz.mordor.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 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. ;-)