Re: How to echo the output of a shell command and preserve the newlines

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 10:40 -0700, Ploppz wrote:
> Ah, thanks! I was a bit confused in what degree I can rely on
> bash/shell functionality in make. Is the body of rules just plain sh
> or something else?

All recipes are passed to /bin/sh (not bash, unless you set the SHELL
variable explicitly in your makefile) [*].  Make just starts the shell,
gives it the recipe, and waits to see what the exit code is.


[*] Actually if your recipe is "simple enough" make will invoke it
directly rather than starting a shell, for efficiency, but the results
should be identical.