Re: [bug #41246] Allow to switch shell batch mode at runtime instead of build time

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:23:46AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:10:11PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 05:58:08 +0900
> > > From: Mike Hommey <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > 
> > > But the thing is there is still inconsistency in how things end up being
> > > invoked whether
> > > - make calls them directly
> > > - make uses sh -c
> > > - make uses sh script.sh
> > 
> > When the shell is a Unixy one, only the first 2 methods are used, and
> > they are used exactly like on Posix platforms.
> 
> Except when make is built with BATCH_MODE_SHELL_ONLY. Which is needed
> when sh -c fucks up with double quotes.

And, more importantly, it's the first two that don't work the same way:

$ mkdir foo
$ echo foo > foo/bar
$ cat <<EOF >foo.mk
default:
        grep foo foo\\bar
        grep "foo" foo\\bar
$ make -f foo.mk
grep foo foo\\bar
foo
grep "foo" foo\\bar
/usr/bin/sh: foobar: No such file or directory