docs/65615: make.conf.5 documents non-existent MAKE_SHELL variable

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Apr 17 12:00:23 UTC 2004


On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:44:59AM -0700, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> Synopsis: make.conf.5 documents non-existent MAKE_SHELL variable
> 
> /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:MAKE_SHELL?=     sh
> /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.if ${MAKE_SHELL} == "csh"
> /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.elif ${MAKE_SHELL} == "sh"
> /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.elif ${MAKE_SHELL} == "ksh"
> /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.error "MAKE_SHELL must be set to one of \"csh\", \"sh\" or \"ksh\"."
> 
> So MAKE_SHELL appears to be used for making make itself.

Ah.  Well, I was looking at the RELENG_4 sources.  Seems this is a 5.x
thing that got MFC'd a bit too enthusiastically.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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