From: "Tim \"Zastai\" Van Holder" <zastai AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Possible make breakage
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:17:35 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1000705154640 DOT 13388B-100000 AT is...
> You need to put "SHELL = /bin/sh" somewhere in the Makefile, and then
> Make will Do The Right Thing.
Apparently, not all the time... In automake 1.4a, a script (depcomp) is used
to generate dependencies while also compiling the relevant file; it gets
invoked like this:

.c.o:
    source='$<' object='$@' libtool=no \
    depfile='$(DEPDIR)/$*.Po' tmpdepfile='$(DEPDIR)/$*.TPo' \
    $(CCDEPMODE) $(depcomp) \
    $(COMPILE) -c -o $@ `test -f $< || echo '$(srcdir)/'`$<

with depcomp = $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/depcomp

With the DJGPP port of make, this does not work (the script never sees the
variables). As a workaround in my port (still under development, although I
may release it soon), I enclosed the entire statement in $(SHELL) -c
"<statement here>". This did work (although makefiles using quotes in their
compilation switches now need patching). I'm at a loss as to why this is; if
the same method of invocation is used in a script in bash, it works fine. So
my guess is that it's somehow make's fault.
Any thoughts are appreciated (especially helpful ones :) ).


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