Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Forking off different shells from Make is a bad idea Message-ID: <16215@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 02:06:12 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.16215 Posted: Mon Aug 19 02:06:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:10:45 EDT Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 9 Especially if you use csh without -f. Obviously, the next person to try to use your makefile will run both a different shell and a different set of aliases. It is folly to have something for which the same command given by 2 different people (which is very often the case with Make) will have different (and unpredictable) results. John p.s. But then, folly is what UNIX commands are based on, right?