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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:17:46 -0700
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Earl Chew <earl_chew AT agilent DOT com>
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Shell avoidance in make-3.79.1-3
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Earl,

What are you trying to do? What do you mean by "/bin/sh avoidance?"

Make has no ability to interpret commands, and relies on a shell to do that 
for each command it decides to invoke.

If you're trying to minimize the number of shell invocations, you can embed 
semicolons in make action lines to get more than one command invoked per 
shell invocation. You can combine that technique with end-of-line backslash 
escapes to keep multiple commands from piling up on a single line of the 
makefile.

Otherwise, no, there's no way to completely take a command interpreter out 
of the loop when make needs to invoke actions.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:18 2001-06-25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Please check out the cygwin mailing list, where, within the last 24
>hours, the topic of not sending personal email to the package
>maintainers (specifically me) has been discussed.
>
>Please do not CC or Bcc me on mail that is intended for the cygwin
>mailing list.  I read it quite regularly.
>
>Anyway, to answer your question: I can't provide any advice.  I don't
>know how to do this.
>
>cgf
>
>On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 03:04:59PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
> >Can anyone offer some advice /bin/sh avoidance with make?
> >
> >I'm trying to figure out how to trigger make-3.79.1-3 to avoid
> >invoking /bin/sh unnecessarily.
> >
> >I construct a makefile:
> >
> >       all: ; sleep 15
> >
> >Then I try:
> >
> >bash-2.05$ echo $SHELL
> >/bin/sh
> >bash-2.05$ ps
> >      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
> >      317       1     317        317  -1  500 14:59:36 /bin/bash
> >      261     317     261        458  -1  500 14:59:36 /usr/bin/ps
> >bash-2.05$ make -f ../foo.mk
> >ps
> >      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
> >      317       1     317        317  -1  500 14:59:36 /bin/bash
> >      461     317     461        549  -1  500 14:59:41 /usr/bin/make
> >      591     461     461        224  -1  500 14:59:41 /bin/sh
> >      662     591     461        585  -1  500 14:59:41 /usr/bin/ps
> >
> >I then try with SHELL unset:
> >
> >bash-2.05$ unset SHELL
> >bash-2.05$ echo $SHELL
> >
> >bash-2.05$ make -f ../foo.mk
> >ps
> >      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
> >      317       1     317        317  -1  500 14:59:36 /bin/bash
> >      465     317     465        563  -1  500 15:01:41 /usr/bin/make
> >      666     465     465        620  -1  500 15:01:41 /bin/sh
> >      699     666     465        710  -1  500 15:01:41 /usr/bin/ps


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