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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Question about Make
Message-ID: <616@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 05:14:49 GMT
References: <322@sdti.UUCP> <203@abhg.UUCP> <927@vsi.COM> <327@sdti.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <327@sdti.UUCP> mjy@sdti.UUCP (0006-Michael J. Young) writes:
>Yup, turns out that was my problem as well.  I've been running ksh for
>a while now.  I thought just setting SHELL=/bin/sh and maybe invoking
>/bin/sh as a subshell would do the trick, but it didn't.  When I change
>my login shell to /bin/sh, make works fine.

No need to change your login shell, just
	$ sh
	$ unset <offending variable name>
	$ SHELL=/bin/sh; export SHELL
	$ exec make <any args you need>

Obviously, you can wrap make with a suitable shell script that does the same.

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