commands within ``make''

Dave Olson olson at fortune.UUCP
Sat Feb 16 07:19:45 AEST 1985


I'm not sure about other versions of make, but Fortune Systems
version (V7 plus some S3, plus local enhancements) will directly
exec the command unless it determines that there are shell
meta-characters in the command (>, &, ;, etc.).

The easiest way to test this with any given version of make is
to create a makefile like:

---------
all:
	ps l
---------

Then run make, and see if the ps reports both a "sh -c ps l", and
a 'ps l'.

	Dave Olson, Fortune Systems
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