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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: commands within ``make''
Message-ID: <1352@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 15:26:44 EST
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1352
Posted: Sat Feb 16 15:26:44 1985
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In article <583@mako.UUCP> glenm@mako.UUCP (Glen McCluskey) writes:
>Is there a good reason why an option cannot be added
>to ``make'' so that it will directly execute subcommands
>such as the compiler, instead of invoking a subshell?

The version of make on our system (currently 4.2BSD, but this was also
true in 4.1, thus probably in V7) does directly exec subcommands as long
as they don't have shell meta-characters in them (=|^();&<>*?[]:$`'"\
and <newline>).

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