Re: Problem with shell commands on Digital UNIX V4.0F.

[Matt Hodges]

>>>>> Ted Stern writes:

 > Interesting. For the bash test, try

 >         SHELL := /bin/bash --noprofile --norc

 > If that doesn't work, try adding --posix.

The --norc option makes it work.

 > You might also want to try running the makefile from within a
 > non-bash interactive shell, e.g. /bin/ksh.

This didn't make any difference for the non-trivial Makefiles.

 > If that isolates the problem, I would recommend that in general you
 > use a bourne-derived shell that isn't the same as your default
 > interactive shell.

Now I'm confused. The chart I sent you only had failures for
/bin/bash, but the program I'm building explicitly has the shell set
to /bin/sh in its Makefiles. Perhaps something else is not working.

Matt