From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: MAKE with BASH Date: 25 May 1998 11:42:28 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 18 Message-ID: <6kblf4$24n$1@star.cs.vu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: galjas.cs.vu.nl To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: > However, Make doesn't call Bash unless the command uses some shell > features, like redirection, pipes, quoted arguments, etc. Now we are at it, can't we force Make to use Bash (if available)? I hate it when, for instance, configure figures out that //j/bin/ginstall.exe is my GNU-install and Make fails to run it (because it doesn't know about the //d/* Bash extension). I noticed the MAKESHELL-variable somewhere. Just what does it do _exactly_? I have had some problems with makefiles using Bash that worked without MAKESHELL but not with it. -- Groeten, Michel. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter ____________ \ /====\ / "You know, Beavis, you need things that suck, \/ \/ to have things that are cool", Butt-Head.