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To:	Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>
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Subject: Re: -c arguents 
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> I wonder if the behaviour should be changed to follow that of sh?

I've reported this to Byron more than a year ago. This was
his reply.

-- Robert

> 2) make on the sgi has a bug: it executes its shell with "$SHELL -ce command"
> and since rc uses getopt(3) to process its arguments (hardly nonstandard,
> imho) rc sees the single command "e" followed by a bunch of arguments which
> it places in $*. One fix is to place a copy of make in a different directory,
> edit it with, say, emacs, and transpose the order of the letters "ce". That
> will make it invoke rc correctly.
> 
> One caveat: many makefiles out there break when you use rc as a shell. It is
> a bug, imo, that sgi's make does not default to sh unless explicitly overriden
> via SHELL. I believe other makes operate in that fashion.