Re: make and ~ expansion

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> It's trivial to fix; edit job.c on or around line 2482 you'll see this:

Paul>   static char sh_chars[] = "#;\"*?[]&|<>(){}$`^";

Paul> Just add "~" to the string above, such as:

Paul>   static char sh_chars[] = "#;\"*?[]&|<>(){}$`^~";
Paul>                                                ^
Paul>                                                |
Paul> This will ensure that when you invoke a command with a ~ in it, make
Paul> will start a shell to handle it rather than try to fork/exec the command
Paul> directly.

You know, this all seems like a hack to speed things up... wouldn't it
be more elegant to just pass each line to the shell no matter what.
OK, the above is just a scholarly opinion.
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