Re: Handling of shell builtins in make(1)

From: Harti Brandt (hartmut.brandt_at_dlr.de)
Date: 05/24/05

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To: Max Okumoto <okumoto@ucsd.edu>

    On Mon, 23 May 2005, Max Okumoto wrote:

    MO>4. Extend .SHELL: to allow specifing a list of built-in. And then
    MO> we should define them in bsd.sys.mk or some other config file.

    We would need to add yet another config file for this because make
    doesn't read anything if given the -r flag. It would end up having
    no shell which would be wrong.

    MO>This will allow people to add keywords for their shells, and
    MO>remove that stuff from the make source code. Hard coding it
    MO>in the binary is wrong.

    The initial shell (/bin/sh) must be in the binary because it must run with
    -r. I see no sense to add another config file just for the purpose
    of specifying the shell. What would that give you that you cannot do now?

    harti
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