Execution of recipe commands

[thutt]

Hello folks,

  On Linux (at least) it appears that Gnu Make will execute each line
  in a recipe with 'bash -c'.

  If the recipe is quite (pronounced: really, really) long, this can
  result in an 'Argument list too long' error.

  Is there any way to induce Gnu Make to write the recipe to a file
  and then 'bash -c' the file?

thanks,
thutt