Re: linux/Makefile: CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL
Jim Freeman (jfree@sovereign.org)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:27:25 -0600 (MDT)
Michael Riepe writes:
...
> Make, on the other hand, is not responsible for handling shell
> metacharacters. It simply spawns a ${SHELL}, that's all. Programmers
> have to take care that their Makefiles (or shell scripts - I've seen
> quite a few broken configure scripts) are portable - and a Makefile that
> needs bash (or ksh) isn't. And please don't tell me that "On every
> Linux system in the world, /bin/sh is a full-featured bash". It isn't,
> and will probably never be.
... but for this discussion (re: systems doing linux kernel makes),
kernel Makefiles assuming a full-featured bash is very reasonable.
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