Hi Kerl, On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:11:27PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > > virtually all systems have a posixy shell > > Yes, and that's fine for scripts which can search for it and exec > themselves to use it, but it doesn't help with Makefile rules -- or am I > missing something? Those should still be least-common-denominator > vanilla sh, I think.
Well, typically SHELL = @SHELL@ appears in Makefile.in's (in automake-generated files anyway). Not all make implementations obey this setting (AFAIR they are allowed by Posix to ignore it) but most do. Cheers, Ralf
