Re: Handling of shell builtins in make(1)

From: Stijn Hoop (stijn_at_win.tue.nl)
Date: 05/24/05

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    Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:17:00 +0200
To: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>

    On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:08:19AM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
    > 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.

    Or, add a way to query /bin/sh for the list of builtins (sh
    --show-builtins) and use that in the absence of an explicit .SHELL.

    > 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?

    I think it's more that hardcoding a list of builtins is undesirable.

    --Stijn 

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