make behavior?

[Michael "Ford" Ditto]

In article <8220001 at hp-lsd.HP.COM> sung at hp-lsd.HP.COM (Ann Sung) writes:
>  $ make
>  	pwd
>  /tmp/test
>  	echo "test" > test.out
>  	pwd
>  /tmp/test
>
>The file test.out is created in my home directory, rather than in /tmp/test
>as I expected.

Note that the line containing the "pwd" command is simple enough that make
will directly exec() it without running a shell, while the "echo" line must
be passed to the shell for interpretation.  That points to your shell as
the source of the problem, since the pwd commands executed correctly.

I would guess that your $SHELL variable is set to /bin/ksh and you have a
.kshrc file which changes your current directory.  The problem can (and
should) be fixed by setting SHELL to /bin/sh in the Makefile.  You also
probably want to consider whether your .kshrc's behavior is wrong.  (The
name .kshrc actually comes from $ENV; yours might be different.)

(The same warning about make applies to users of csh with a cshrc file; I
just assumed that this 3b1 user would be using ksh.)
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