Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!gouldfr!cetia!chris 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> Organization: Cetia, Toulon, France Lines: 20 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 -- Chris Bertin | CETIA | 150, Av Marcelin Berthelot, Z.I. Toulon-Est +33(94)212005 | 83088 Toulon Cedex, France Ext: 239 | inria!cetia