> The mk that comes with Inferno "fails to fail" when building Inferno > sources on my Intel Mac on Mac OS X. The mk in Plan 9 from User Space > doesn't appear to have this problem.
i'm fairly sure now that it's a difference between bash and other sh in handling -e, that being the main environmental difference between systems on which a little test mkfile fails (sh is bash) and those on which it works (sh is not bash, as on FreeBSD).
