On 05/10/2010 02:36 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 05/07/2010 03:23 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> +remote_protocol-structs:
>>> +   $(AM_V_GEN)if pdwtags --help > /dev/null 2>&1; then             \
>>
>> Some shells (at least Solaris /bin/sh) are noisy in spite of the
>> redirections, when a program doesn't exist.  I'm proposing a followup
>> patch to clean up this invocation to use a subshell, and also to fix the
>> subshell for cppi in cfg.mk.
> 
> Or you could consider the noise a two-pronged feature:
>   - notify user that their $(SHELL) is inferior
>   - more noise about lack of a useful developer tool (pdwtags or cppi)

In which case, your pdwtags usage is fine, and I should modify my patch
to just drop the cppi subshell altogether?

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