Failure to execute 'csh'-commands from 'make'

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Fri Aug 9 10:42:27 AEST 1985


> In article <5433 at fortune.UUCP> olson at fortune.UUCP (Dave olson) writes:
> >If you have one of the 'augmented' versions of make, S3, S5, (not sure
> >how many others...) try setting 'SHELL=/bin/csh'.
> 
> This will, of course, render any bourne shell scripts inoperable, as *all*
> shell scripts will be executed by csh.

A much better solution seems to be to use the real shell by default
and to have all Cshell scripts start off #!/bin/csh.



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