Re: Shell for evaluating .SHELLFLAGS

[Afif Elghraoui]

I should clarify something:

On 05/26/2015 12:35 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 10:16 AM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
>
> > This will be a problem when using sqlite3 as your make .SHELL.
> >
> > Why?  Because the contents of a make recipe is always passed to the
> > .SHELL as a parameter.  Never on stdin.  But that is what you need.
> >
> > Why do you need the recipe on stdin?
> >
> > Because meta-commands (aka dot commands) such as .output are limited
> > in where they can appear.
>
> Right. That's why I pass in the meta-commands using the init file with
> sqlite3's -i flag.

That's not really why I do it. I did it mostly because I need this for 
every rule and don't want to write it for each of them.

> > In particular, that are not understood when they appear in the
> > contents of a multi-line string as the SQL parameter to sqlite3 .

The dot-commands still work for me when I run them through as a 
command-line parameter, but this case you mention here is still a 
problem for my method. I don't really need .ONESHELL or multiline 
commands for these, though. All of my common startup options are set in 
my init file.

Afif