On 2006-5-7 19:07 UTC, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Using SHELL from the environment would be against the practice on > Unix. And using COMSPEC if SHELL is undefined will effectively make > cmd.exe the default shell (because most users don't have SHELL in the > environment). That is a major change in the behavior; I'm not sure > whether we should make such a change.
I wouldn't necessarily oppose changing it, but an incompatible change in a longstanding, documented behavior ought to require a compelling justification, with careful analysis of what existing practices it would break and clear instructions on how to fix the breakage. That burden of proof has not yet been met. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
