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Re: csh and/or GNU make bug
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:42:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: csh and/or GNU make bug
- References: <20060418011535.DE17216400E@perth.ovpit.indiana.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 17 21:15, gustav wrote:
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> There is a bug either in GNU make or in tcsh or in both---on
> Cygwin. The combination of csh and GNU make will hang if SHELL is
> declared as /bin/csh -f. The -f option is often used to stop csh from
> sourcing users' .cshrc on invocation.
>
> versions:
> make 3.80-1
> tcsh 6.14.00-5
> cygwin 1.5.19-4
>
> Here is a brief demo:
>
> gustav@YANCHEP:../tryme 21:14:36 !548 $ cat GNUmakefile
> SHELL = /bin/csh -f
>
> TODAY := $(shell date +%d%b%Y)
>
> all: echo
>
> echo:
> echo $(TODAY)
>
Hmm, I just tried it and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM with and
without -f.
Corinna
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