Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:42:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: csh and/or GNU make bug
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On Apr 17 21:15, gustav wrote:
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> There is a bug either in GNU make or in tcsh or in both---on
> Cygwin. The combination of csh and GNU make will hang if SHELL is
> declared as /bin/csh -f.  The -f option is often used to stop csh from
> sourcing users' .cshrc on invocation.
> 
>    versions:
>       make     3.80-1
>       tcsh     6.14.00-5
>       cygwin   1.5.19-4
> 
> Here is a brief demo:
> 
> gustav@YANCHEP:../tryme 21:14:36 !548 $ cat GNUmakefile
> SHELL = /bin/csh -f
> 
> TODAY := $(shell date +%d%b%Y)
> 
> all: echo
> 
> echo:
>         echo $(TODAY)
> 

Hmm, I just tried it and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM with and
without -f.


Corinna

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