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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:35:27 +0100
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Subject: [9fans] Re: [inferno-list] Inferno's mk copy on Mac OS X vs Plan 9
	from User Space
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> The mk that comes with Inferno "fails to fail" when building Inferno
> sources on my Intel Mac on Mac OS X.  The mk in Plan 9 from User Space
> doesn't appear to have this problem.

i'm fairly sure now that it's a difference between bash and other sh in handling -e,
that being the main environmental difference between systems on which a
little test mkfile fails (sh is bash) and those on which it works (sh is not bash, as on FreeBSD).