RE: issue with TCSH and gmake

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% "Asperheim, Eric" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ae> and your suggestion, unfortunately, doesn't work. Plus, I really
>   ae> don't want to switch to sh shell since our group uses c/tc shell,
>   ae> i.e. I'd rather stick with the simple script.
>
> Well, ultimately this is a shell script question not a make question,
> and since you can probably count the number of make users using csh or
> tcsh in their makefiles on one hand :), you're probably better off
> asking on a shell programming mailing list or newsgroup.

I'd like to add the suggestion to Eric (and the rest of his group - at
Intel no less) to read http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/
before continuing into the csh tar pits.  That document might lay out
some of the reasons for the smiley in Paul's comments above.

SHELL=sh really is what you want to do.

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
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