Re: Extending gmake to make it less dependant on the shell

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:25:39 -0500
> From: "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
> 
> GNU make tests the value of SHELL, and if doesn't look like it's the
> standard Bourne shell (on a UNIX system that means it's not "/bin/sh")
> then it doesn't even bother trying to use any sort of fastpath
> capability.  It will _always_ just invoke the command in SHELL, for
> every command line.

So I did miss something.  Thanks for pointing this out.

I will have to go and see if Make works like you described in the DOS
and Windows ports.  Somehow, I'm not sure it does.