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From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Possible bug in DJGPP port of GNU make
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 22:44:35 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> This is a feature ;-).

> There are lots of Makefiles out there which use this, and we don't
> break them.

Thanks Eli.  Your explanation makes sense.

> Alternatively, force Bash to be the shell used by Make, in which case
> Bash will return to the original directory after running each command
> line.  With the DJGPP port of Make, you need to put the following line
> in you Makefile, to force Make use Bash:
> 
>   SHELL = /bin/sh

Ok, I'll give that a bash.  I knew I would have to get round to
installing it at some point or another.

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