Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:36:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Porting problems with Sh-utils (beta)
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On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Prashant TR wrote:

> Ok, I have a simple makefile and a script here. Usually in both the sets of
> makefiles, the output "There is no bug in BASH!" is expected. However, the
> first case doesn't show it while the second does! I tried the same thing on
> Linux, but it works alright (shows the message both the times).
> 
> *****************************************
> Makefile:
> -----
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> 
> all:
> 	source='There is no bug in BASH!' \
> 	$(SHELL) ./script \
> 	echo `echo`script executed
> *****************************************
> 
> Script:
> -----
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo $source
> *******************************************
> 
> Makefile (version 2):
> ----
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> 
> all:
> 	source='There is no bug in BASH!' \
> 	$(SHELL) ./script \
> 	echo script executed
> *******************************************

Mark, can you comment on this?  I can confirm that, as long as there's
some `command` after "./script", the script gets an empty value for
$source.