Re: linux/Makefile: CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:09:17 -0300

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980901133609.1198B-100000@babel.clifford.at>,
Cliffor
d Wolf writes:
+-----
| I've just had a look at the GNU make info page (File: make.info, Node:
| Execution) and they say at this page that make executes all commands
| useing a subshell and that it uses /bin/sh as subshell if the $(SHELL)
| variable is not set.
+--->8

I think this ended up being necessary because it can't catch all possible
special characters that /bin/sh uses (i.e. on some systems /bin/sh is ksh /
POSIX sh). Rather than screw up because someone counted on this in a
Makefile, they just send it all to the shell.

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electrical and computer engineering					 KF8NH
carnegie mellon university






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