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From: wiener@idacrd.UUCP (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: cshell within make
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Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 14:17:56 EST
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> This is on BSD 4.2 (on a Sun, v.2.0...)
> I have several script files written in csh syntax that perform some tests on
> files.  I would like to invoke them from within 'make.'  The problem is that
> make insists on using Bourne shell...this despite the fact that the first line
> in the script file is #/bin/csh, and it runs in csh fine when it is called
> interactively.

Have your system manager recompile make: somewhere in the source is a
line that checks your environmental variable $SHELL.  For some reason
that line is usually commented out, even in BSD.

berkeley!brahms!weemba
Matthew P Wiener
Math Dept UCB
Berkeley CA 94720