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SubjectRe: linux/Makefile: CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL
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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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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university



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