Re: [9fans] p9p mk issue

["Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>]

> OK, how about this?  If env. var MKSHELL is set to rc, then
> set the default value of make variable MKSHELL to rc else to
> sh.  You get exactly the same effect as now and I get what I
> want by setting MKSHELL env. var to rc.

No.  The fact is that some mkfiles are written with rc
recipes and some with sh recipes.  Setting a global default
is going to break one or the other.  It is just not that hard
to write 

MKSHELL=rc

if you start using complicated rc constructs.  The vast
majority of recipes one writes in mkfiles tend to be 
valid sh and rc syntax anyway, so I would not expect
that you'd have to put that in many mkfiles.

Also, if you have lots of complicated scripts in all your
mkfiles, maybe you are missing a chance to refactor 
the complication into a single included mkfile that 
can have MKSHELL=rc in it.  Then you've only got one.

Russ