Re: About Section 7.2.2 "Utilities in Makefiles" of the GCS

[Ralf . Wildenhues]

Hi Kerl,

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 01:11:27PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
>     virtually all systems have a posixy shell 
> 
> Yes, and that's fine for scripts which can search for it and exec
> themselves to use it, but it doesn't help with Makefile rules -- or am I
> missing something?  Those should still be least-common-denominator
> vanilla sh, I think.

Well, typically
  SHELL = @SHELL@

appears in Makefile.in's (in automake-generated files anyway).  Not all
make implementations obey this setting (AFAIR they are allowed by Posix
to ignore it) but most do.

Cheers,
Ralf