> On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 10:40 -0700, Ploppz wrote: > > Ah, thanks! I was a bit confused in what degree I can rely on > > bash/shell functionality in make. Is the body of rules just plain sh > > or something else? > > All recipes are passed to /bin/sh (not bash, unless you set the SHELL > variable > explicitly in your makefile) [*]. Make just starts the shell, gives it the > recipe, > and waits to see what the exit code is.
Keep in mind when the recipe is multiple lines and you are using parallelism (-j) then each line may be executed in different shells potentially out of order, unless you have as a target .ONESHELL: in which case the whole recipe will be sent to a single shell > > > [*] Actually if your recipe is "simple enough" make will invoke it directly > rather than starting a shell, for efficiency, but the results should be > identical. > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-make mailing list > Help-make@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
