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From: chris@cetia.UUCP (Chris Bertin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Make & .cshrc
Message-ID: <128@cetia.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 14:54:46 GMT
References: <452@alice.marlow.uucp> <67870@sun.uucp> <67925@sun.uucp> <24946@ccicpg.UUCP>
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In article <24946@ccicpg.UUCP>, nick@ccicpg.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
> In article <68616@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> >Yes, it was introduced in either the System III or the System V "make".  I'd
> >call it a "misfeature", not a "feature", since it breaks existing Makefiles
> >when run by users whose login shell isn't "/bin/sh".
> >
> 
> I personally like this feature/misfeature, as it allows me to invoke ksh.

If 'make' had been modified to get its shell from a different variable (say
'MAKESHELL', for example), no existing makefiles would have been broken and
you would still be able to use a different shell. It is a misfeature.

Chris

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