> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Clifford Wolf wrote:
>
> > I attached a patch which fixes the broken Makefiles. I don't know if we
> > use bash features - makeing the suggestion that /bin/sh is bash -
> > somewhere else in the kernel too.
>
> Why not fix "make" instead to either handle the shell extensions or at
> least notice that it doesn't know about some new meta-characters. As far
> as I know (but yes, I'm too lazy to try to find the standard), the brace
> expansion is part of the POSIX shell standard, and if make can't handle it
> then make is very arguably broken.
I've just had a look at the Single Unix Spec. Version 2 (Unix98) - and I
can't find anything about brace expansion there (and as far as I know
POSIX 1003.2/2a went into this paper).
So it's not part of the POSIX shell standard and if we use it we need to
tell make to use bash instead of /bin/sh.
- clifford
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