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From: peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Using 'csh' in Makefiles
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.000128.6523@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au>
Date: 15 Oct 90 00:01:28 GMT
References: <9010102030.AA23475@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Sydney, Australia.
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From article <9010102030.AA23475@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, by karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU:
> 
> make takes each action line as a separate shell exec. The way
> around that is to use a backslash (\) to escape each newline. Then
> make will run the entire bunch of lines as one line.
> To change the default shell command, equate SHELL=/bin/csh in the
> makefile.
> 
This will not work. I have tried it.
The problem is that 'csh' relies on the fact that all the constructs are
on separate lines.

eg:   foreach i (*)
          echo $i
      end

This will not work in a Makefile, even with '\' at the end of the line.

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Peter Kerney. Silicon Graphics, Sydney, Australia. (peterk@syd.sgi.oz.au)

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