Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 1998 22:04:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: linux/Makefile: CONFIG_SHELL and SHELL |
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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.
Linus
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