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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Failure to execute 'csh'-commands from 'make'
Message-ID: <294@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 11:57:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.294
Posted: Tue Aug  6 11:57:08 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 00:32:40 EDT
References: <291@oce-rd1.UUCP> <5433@fortune.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <5433@fortune.UUCP> olson@fortune.UUCP (Dave olson) writes:
>If you have one of the 'augmented' versions of make, S3, S5, (not sure
>how many others...) try setting 'SHELL=/bin/csh'.  make will then run
>csh instead of sh (of course, this will slow things down quite a bit
>if you have a large .cshrc file not bracketed by if($?prompt), and
>you have very many shell commands in your makefile).
>
>make will also recognize 'PATH=...' as a special variable.  Both
>SHELL= and PATH= are exported into the environment for all programs
>that make starts.

Ok, my Makefile has SHELL=/bin/sh, but it still won't run the simple
shell command    if test .....

Any ideas on why not or how to make it so that it can?
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