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Re: [PATCH] Makefile: use backticks rather than $() notation to support ancient shells

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 6, 2008, 00:10 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
> Otherwise, should we set the SHELL variable to the configured SHELL_PATH 
> at some point in the Makefile?

I think that would make more sense, especially since it would catch wrong SHELL_PATH early.

Maybe we can even have some sanity check that tests if SHELL_PATH groks $()?

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 2 of 5 in “Makefile: use backticks rather than $() notation to support ancient shells”
  1. Makefile: use backticks rather than $() notation to support ancient shellsBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2008
  3. Makefile: set SHELL to value of SHELL_PATHBrandon Casey, Aug 7, 2008
  4. Makefile: add a target which will abort compilation with ancient shellsBrandon Casey, Aug 7, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2008

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