svn commit: r329064 - head/share/zoneinfo

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Sun Feb 11 00:10:34 UTC 2018


On Friday, February 09, 2018 07:04:50 PM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:49 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Friday, February 09, 2018 03:50:33 PM Warner Losh wrote:
> > > > New Revision: 329064
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329064
> > > >
> > > > Log:
> > > >   We don't actually need env here, so drop it. All shells allow setting
> > > >   of shell variables for the next command like this.
> > >
> > > Eh:
> > >
> > > % LC_ALL=C env
> > > LC_ALL=C: Command not found.
> > >
> > > csh and tcsh don't let you set environment variables as a prefix.
> > >
> > > That said, if you try to use csh as the SHELL for make I bet many things
> > > would break.
> > 
> > Right, all shells supported as SHELL for make. csh isn't on the list of
> > supported shells. Your bet is right: a lot of things do break.
> 
> I don't really understand why we're discussing it: (t)csh, fish, whatever
> are for interactive use *only*.  Scripts (and makefiles) should only be
> written for standard plain POSIX shell.

I think the trigger is that "All shells" is a bit ambiguous.  "All shells
supported by make" or some such would have been clearer.

-- 
John Baldwin


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