Re: smarter makes

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:34:23PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >> Why can't the initial, default makefile notice that this hasn't been
> >> done yet and just call it for us?
> 
> >With which shell?  And the policy is that no files are overwritten.
> >However, nowadays we have out-of-the tree build, so the toplevel
> >makefile can create solaris7.0-sparc directory, and run Configure in
> >this directory, then call the Makefile in this directory.
> 
> I must be missing something.    What do you mean, "which shell"?
> Whatever is on the #! line of the Configure script, or, canonically, 
> "sh".  Are you saying that you don't know what kind of a script
> that Configure is?

No, of course I do not know.  I would guess that the top line contains
/bin/sh, and on a lot of systems there is not going to be even /bin.
And even if we forget about /bin, then should we call sh, ash, bash,
ksh, pdksh or whatever flavors of sh exists locally?

Ilya

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