cshell within make

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Fri Jan 17 05:43:00 AEST 1986


> > This is on BSD 4.2 (on a Sun, v.2.0...)
> > I have several script files written in csh syntax that perform some tests
> > on files.  I would like to invoke them from within 'make.'  The problem
> > is that make insists on using Bourne shell...
> 
> At least one make I know of (on a pseudo-Berkeley system) looks for
> MAKESHELL in the environment -- you could see whether yours does too.

It doesn't - Sun didn't put that in.  Whatever system you saw, its makers
probably added that feature, 'cause it's not in 4.2BSD.

	Guy Harris



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