From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Stalker To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p mk issue In-reply-to: <20071120224812.56E875B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20071120224812.56E875B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2283.1195631080.1@maths.tcd.ie> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:44:40 +0000 Message-Id: <20071121074441.029772F82@okapi.maths.tcd.ie> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05d3d67e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > For now I just changed default MKSHELL to rc in src/cmd/mk. > What I was really arguing for was for simplifying MKSHELL > semantics or getting rid of it altogether since it only > exists in p9p mk. I would keep MKSHELL. I use mk a lot under FreeBSD. They're mostly things I originally used bmake for, but I got annoyed with various of its oddities. Having MKSHELL=/bin/sh means less work in converting Makefiles to mkfiles. You can always set MKSHELL=$PLAN9/bin/rc. If I remember, your original problem was in inheriting MKSHELL in recursive use. Getting rid of MKSHELL seems like a drastic solution to that problem. -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282