Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nicmad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!brown 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 Lines: 23 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? -- |------------| | |-------| o| HRD725U & PV9600 Mr. Video | |AV-2010| o| |--------------| | | | | | |----| o o o | | |-------| O| |--------------| |------------| VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go) {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown