Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!dual!mats From: mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: ksh as /bin/sh Message-ID: <616@dual.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:10:19 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.616 Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:10:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:53:43 EDT References: <770@druxh.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 12 Regarding ksh slowing down MAKE if installed as /bin/sh...if you keep the old shell around, usually a good idea anyway (perhaps as /bin/bsh? or /bin/osh?), setting the line `SHELL=/bin/osh' in your makefile will fix this. Odious to have to change your makefiles, but worth remembering in case of trouble... [ From one who has been bitten by `sh' constructs in my makefiles, only to find that `csh' was being used as the shell....] Mats Wichmann Dual Systems Corp. ...{ucbvax,amd70,ihnp4,cbosgd,decwrl,fortune}!dual!mats