docs/65615: make.conf.5 documents non-existent MAKE_SHELL variable

Peter Pentchev roam at ringlet.net
Tue Jul 13 15:00:46 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/65615; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>,
	bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/65615: make.conf.5 documents non-existent MAKE_SHELL variable
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:55:35 +0300

 On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
 > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:44:59AM -0700, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
 > > Synopsis: make.conf.5 documents non-existent MAKE_SHELL variable
 > > 
 > > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:MAKE_SHELL?=     sh
 > > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.if ${MAKE_SHELL} == "csh"
 > > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.elif ${MAKE_SHELL} == "sh"
 > > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.elif ${MAKE_SHELL} == "ksh"
 > > /usr/src/usr.bin/make/Makefile:.error "MAKE_SHELL must be set to one of \"csh\", \"sh\" or \"ksh\"."
 > > 
 > > So MAKE_SHELL appears to be used for making make itself.
 > 
 > Ah.  Well, I was looking at the RELENG_4 sources.  Seems this is a 5.x
 > thing that got MFC'd a bit too enthusiastically.
 
 It seems that Jens closed the PR without actually fixing the RELENG_4
 make.conf(5) manpage; the MAKE_SHELL description has been removed now.
 Thanks for noticing this!
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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