From:	jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject:	Re: bash won't hand off to perl (reprise)
22 Mar 1997 01:44:10 -0800 :
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JP Shipherd wrote:

> You're right, this is the same behaviour exhibited on solaris.  However
> that is exactly the command spawned by gnumake (if SHELL=/bin/sh).  

What makes you think so?  When make invokes the shell, it invokes it
with the -c flag.  See the shell documentation for the difference
between sh -c foo.pl and sh foo.pl

Note that this thread is not gnu-win32 specific; there are other sources
(e.g., tfm) for getting answers to such questions.

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