Re: [7606] shell builtin "test" not invoked if appears alone

[Paul D. Smith]

%% <address@hidden> writes:

  k> POSIX says the line should be processed like system("test")
  k> which will be execvp("/bin/sh","-c","test") which will succeed,

  k> but GNU make tries to optimize avoiding /bin/sh,
  k> which tries execvp("test") and fails.

  k> GNU automake uses this bare "test" in several testsuite.

I don't have a problem making this change but I'm curious as to what
kind of command line in a makefile rule would use test(1) but not use
any other special character that would cause make to kick the command to
the slow path?

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